232 Cultivation of Arable Land. Flax Produce of Crops of. 



is the flax.* When thefe crops are difpofed of before pulling, which is the 

 practice of different northern diftricts where the culture of flax is extenfive, the 

 price is in general from about fix or feven to ten pounds, or upon the average 

 fomething more than feven pounds. 



When flax feed is the aim of the cultivator, the quantity of that fort of pro 

 duce is generally from about fix to ten or twelve bufhels on the acre. The price 

 depends upon various circumftances, as the quantity of foreign feed that is im 

 ported, the demand there is for it for the purpofes of being exprefled for its oil, 

 or for being formed into a fort of jelly as food for fattening cattle. It is moftly 

 about half the price of that which is imported from Holland for the purpofe of 

 fowing. On the average it may be probably eftimated at from about three or 

 four to five or fix {hillings the bufhel. 



It feems probable from thefe ftatements, that flax may be grown with great profit 



* It has been efti mated by fome in this way : 



EXPENCES. . s. d. 



General expences in preparing land, fowing, &c. 6 



Rent, taxes, tythes, &c. - 2 13 4 



PRODUCE. 

 Forty flones, at PS. per ftone - ) 



Bounty at 4d. per ftone - - ) 



Profit .10 



But in other calculations the profit is not fo great. In the Correfted Report of the State of Agricul 

 ture in the Weft Riding of Yorkfhire it ftands thus: 



EXPENCE PER ACRE. S &amp;lt;*. 



Working the land - - 16 



Seed . - - - - 110 



Soding and weeding - - - - - -050 



Pulling - - 10 



Leading, diking, &c. - - 10 



Taking out and fpreading - - - - - 0120 



Turning and taking up - - - - - 050 



Rent of land when lett to flax -grower - - - - 550 



Dreffing 50 ft ones at Is. fid. per ftone - 3 15 



Profit - - - - 7 11 



. 20 10 

 PRODUCE. 



50 flones of flax at 8s. per ftone - 20 10 o 



