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INDEX. 



Postle, Mr., experiments of, 173, &c. ; 

 334 



Power Loom, not adapted for linen, 279 



Pulling, 154 (see Flax) 



Profits of growing flax, 112; of sum- 

 mer equal to winter grazing, 168 ; 

 derived from meat and corn, 152 ; 

 overcome all things, 175 ; unex- 

 ampled, from fat cattle, 193 ; realized, 

 307, 308 



R. 



Rammer, plate of, 130 ; description 

 of, 144 



Retting flax, 116, et passim 



Richardson, Mr., reply to, 170, et seq. 



Richmond, the Duke of, 246 



Ripening, 103 



Rippling, 121, &c. 



Robertson, Dr., on the Agriculture of 

 Perthshire, 85 



Romans, flax first introduced into Eng- 

 land by the, 24, 70 



Ross, Esq., M.P., remarks of, on 

 the flax crop, 25 



Rous, the Hon. W. R., becomes pre- 

 sident of the Society for Promoting 

 the Growth of Flax, 37 ; his letter to 

 the Nobility, &c. of Norfolk, 38-40 ; 

 his speech at the first meeting of the 

 society, 42 ; thanked by the Bishop 

 on behalf of the meeting, 55 ; his 

 hesitation, ib. ; panic-stricken, 56 ; 

 his letter to the Author, and reply, 

 57-59 ; his letter to the ' Norwich 

 Mercury,' 1 99 ; the Author defends 

 the flax-cause against, 216, et seq. 



Russell, Lord John, 241 



Russia, our trade with, 49 



S. 



Salter, Mr., notes of, 137 



Scutching flax, 106, et passim 



Sheep, how to mix compound for, 134; 



feeding with linseed, 145 ; with peas, 



251 



Shomberg, H. C., Esq., 4 

 Skinner, Capt., speech of, 99 

 Smith, Mr., 124, &c. 

 Smyth, Dr., on the Agriculture of 



Argyll, 97 



Somerville, Mr., letter of, 74 

 Stanislaus, King of Poland ; his remarks 



on the condition of the people, 69 

 Stirrer, plate of, for making compound, 



247 

 Stracey, Sir Edward, advocates the flax 



cause, 49 ; adopts the box-feeding 



system, 146 ; his experiments, 158 



T. 



Tandragee, flax-market at, 48 



Taunton, Mr., the Author's controversy 

 with, 252, et seq. 



Taylor, Mr., the Author's controversy 

 with, 258, et seq. ; some errors pointed 

 out in his letters, 323, et seq. 



Trimingham, flax-dressing at, 4, 5 ; 

 small sum raised for poor-rates at, xii., 

 6 ; soil of, 27 ; a visit to, invited, 60 



Turnips, the country indebted to Nor- 

 folk for, 50 ; the sheet-anchor of 

 Norfolk farmers, 167 : a necessary 

 evil, ib. ; uncertainty of, 224 



Twine, the consumption of in Norwich 

 alone, would require a large breadth 

 of land to be sown with flax, 46 



V. 



Van Imschoot, Mr., 215 



w. 



Wages earned by those employed in 

 flax-dressing, 5 ; of the operative, 

 barely sufficient for the necessaries 

 of life, 17 ; lowness of on the Con- 

 tinent, 18 ; when low, an immense 

 decay of home-commerce the result, 

 19 ; increased, 239 ; of flax-dressers, 

 305 



Waste lands, cultivation of, 64, 161, et 

 passim 



Wheat crop will not be diminished by 

 the growth of flax, 188, et passim 



Welch language, translation of this 

 book into, 313 



Whitmore, W. W., Esq., his boxes, 144 



Wilkinson, Rev. W. F., meeting of the 

 North Walsham Farmers' Club on 

 his grounds, 27 



Wilson, Hon. and Rev. R., advocates 

 the flax cause, 51 ; on the committee 

 of the Flax Society, 55 



Windham, W. H., Esq., 41 ; adopts the 

 system of box-feeding, 190 



Wodehouse, E., Esq., M.P., speeches of, 

 29, 37, 53 



Wodehouse, Lord, proposes a resolution 

 at a meeting of the Flax Society, 50 ; 

 adopts the box-feeding system, 146 



Wolstenholme, Mr., his flax crop, 1 1 2, 1 56 



Wyndham, Colonel, adopts the box- 

 feeding system, 127 



Y. 



Yarranton, Andrew, on the improve- 

 ment of England, 89 

 Yellow flax most valuable, 111 

 Yorkshire, flax grown in, 33, 107 



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