PROFIT PER ACRE OF FLAX. 307 



" Hembury Fort, Honiton, March I9t/i, 1846. 



" I enclose the account of my flax, which I have put down 

 low, so that I may be within the mark. * * * We shall certainly 

 require the services of one of your Belgian flax-dressers in this neigh- 

 bourhood. * * 



" Debt and Credit of one Acre : 



. *. d. 



" Ploughing three times . . . 100 



Seed, two bushels . . . 100 



Working in . . . . 026 



Pulling 10 



Dressing flax, t\\o packs an acre . 300 



Rent 1 10 



726 



By Seed, sixteen bushels at 7*. . 5 12 

 Flax, two packs, at 6/. per pack . 12 



17 12 

 720 



Clear 10 10 



"WILLIAM PORTER." 

 Willoughton Grange, Spittal, March \lth, 1846. 



"SIR, 



" Having grown a very excellent crop of flax last season on a 

 piece of poor undrained clay land, with the application of two cwt. of 

 guano ; and having threshed the seed a short time since (23 bushels 

 per acre), I request to know whether I should prepare the fibre ac- 

 cording to the Trent-side system. * * * I may add, that I am so 

 well pleased with flax as a fallow-crop, that I intend to sow ten acres 

 this year. * * * Linseed is now very clear, being ten shillings per 

 bushel. 



"W. J. NICHOLSON." 



In an official document, for 1846, taken from the Fifth 

 Annual Report of the Irish Flax Society, " Presented by order 

 of Her Majesty," I perceive that the profits upon one acre of 

 flax, English measure, would be 207., as follows : 



x 2 



