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FURTHER LETTERS ON THE CULTIVATION OF FLAX. 



Letter I. On the Flax-Crop and the Use of Linseed . . 289 

 Reply to " Cincinnatus " The Consul of that Name A farm in 

 Bedfordshire Profits of Box-feeding Prices realised by the 

 Author for his Flax. 



Letter ILOn Flax 295 



Reply to "An Old Subscriber "Flax will fail if grown after 

 Turnips Flax in Bedfordshire Mr. Druce to the Author 

 Theoretical Farming. 

 Letter III. The Flax Cause Box-feeding . . . .301 



Reply to " Ignoramus" Mr. Matthews's Letter to the Author. 

 Concluding Remarks ....... 306 



Profits of Flax-Growing Facts connected with the Flax-Crop 

 Manure Mr. Nicholls Sir R. Peel's Donation to the Irish 

 Flax Society The Author's Exertions in the Flax Cause A 

 Prize proposed for the best Essay on Flax Linseed excellent 

 Food for Horses Conclusion. 



APPENDIX. 



Controversy on the Gold of Pleasure . . . . .321 

 Letters of the Rev. Daniel Gwilt, the Author, &c., on this subject. 



Cultivation of Hemp 332 



The Hemp PlantPreparation of the Soil Sowing Heckling 

 A Profitable Crop. 



First Annual Report of the National Flax Association . . 335 

 Management during the past Year Saving the Seed the Crop 

 not an exhausting one Machinery for Flax-dressing Hand- 

 scutching Hand-spinning Spread of Information Factorship 

 Value of the Fibre of the Seed Finances. 



A Remedy for the Distresses of Norwich .... 347 

 Erection of a Flax-spinning Mill How to establish the Linen 

 Trade Distress of small Tradesmen in that City The Labour- 

 Market. 



Flax Spinners and Agents in England .... 353 



Irish Flax and Tow Spinners . . . . . 354 



Irish Flax Merchants and Agents ..... 355 



INDEX , 357 



