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cd with the dry weather, nor fo much hurt 

 by the rains us the flax fown in the ordinary 

 way. 



An acre of flax, when fown after old grafs, 

 and fummer-fullowed, dunged with a top 

 drafting, in ordinary feafons would be in 

 value from L. 30, to L. 50, foine years more. 

 Forty ftones of lint would be, at thirty fhil- 

 lings, L. 60, the expence for feed and labour 

 to be deducted. Whereas, the average value 

 of lint in general fown at prefent in this coun- 

 try will not amount to L. 8 ; although in 

 fome places, when fown after grafs, the va- 

 lue will be L. 30. Yet the great quantity 

 which is fown upon poor ground, and full of 

 weeds, reduces the average value. 



Indeed, the only way to render flax a pro- 

 fitable article, both to the farmer and the ma-p 

 nufadlurer, is to follow the Dutch manner of 

 eftablifhing flax boors, who purchafe the flax 

 from the farmer at fo much per acre when 

 growing, and the buyer is at the whole ex- 

 pence of manufacturing, from pulling till 

 drefled into flax. The boor would give ac- 

 cording to the value of the flax when grow- 

 ing ; and having no other employment but 

 to attend upon the crop, when pulling, wa- 



tering, 



