s 



"The idea that good fibre can only be obtained by harvesting the 

 crop before the seed is ripe does not appear to have much foundation 

 in fact ; judging from the above results the best return is obtained in 

 the later harvest. 



"At the present time linseed oil is in great demand, ami there seems 

 every prospect of this demand continuing. It will then-fore be well 

 worth while to make further experiments with this crop, more particu- 

 larly with some of the varieties which are known to give a large yield 

 of oil. Morocco, Plate, Russian, and Indian varieties frequently give 

 40 per cent and more of oil. These should certain I v be tried in this 

 country. " 



In addition to the valuations for the cleaned fibre, given by 

 Mr. Hughes, it may be of interest to cultivators and others to examine 

 the results obtained from these experiments as a whole where the stalks 

 are sold in an unscutched condition, such as is most frequently done in 

 the country. As a matter of fact nn offer of P.T. 60 per <[ant:"ir. 

 delivered at Benha, was made for the unscutched crop from the whole 

 area, though it was not accepted. This then can be taken as u basis of 

 the price of the retted stalks in the present year, and the price of the 

 M-ed may readily be assumed to be P.T. 200, which figure at the present 

 moment it actually exceeds. * 



The sections each yielded as under in rotls of retted stalks : 



I = ,S;H; rotls. 

 Tl =i,cn';j 

 in =i.o:s7 



say 2, '.'/>(> rotls, equal to 2!* qantars ami ."(! rotls. 



This, at P.T. 00 per qantar, is equivalent to L.E. 17'73<> milliemes. 

 Taking the seed yield at 5 '63 ardebs, which is the rate per feddan 

 calculated on the basis of the actual production of the six plots 

 which were permitted to produce seed, and taking the price at P.T. 2!MI 

 per ardeb, we find the value of the seed crop to be L.E. Ki'327 mil- 

 liemes per feddan, making a gross return of L.E. 34'0(!.'-> milliemes 

 per feddan. This will serve as an indication of the very satisfactory 



* The prices per ardel> for ordinary linseed at Mfna el BagBa], for October, averaged each 



week as follows : week ending (itli P.T. 273, IHth P.T. 27S, L'Oth P.T. 2'J5. The Mimljty of tli- 

 (iuemniei/.a erop was superior to the usual market sample. 



