CONTENTS ix 



CHAPTER XII 



PACE 



SCUTCHING . . . . . ." . 125 



106. Scutching Operations 107. Hand Scutching 108. Flax 

 Straw Butting Machines 109. Breaking the Dry Flax Straw 

 110. Breaking Rollers 111. Fluted Breaking Rollers 112. 

 Homer's Skeleton Drums 113. Machine Scutching 114. Prin- 

 ciple of Scutching and Action of Mechanism 115. Buffing and 

 Cleaning 116. Details of Scutching Wheels 117. Varieties of 

 Adjustment of Blades to Stock 118. The Liddell Automatic 

 Grip 119. The Automatic Scutcher 120. Principle and Opera- 

 tion of Automatic Scutching 



CHAPTER XIII 



MARKETING FLAXES . . . . ' . . ... 146 



121. Buying and Selling of Flaxes 122. Irish Flaxes 123. Bel- 

 gian Flaxes 124. Flemish Flaxes 125. Walloon Flaxes 126. 

 French Flaxes 127. Conditions of Sale. 128 Russian Flaxes 

 129. Belgian, Dutch and French Flaxes, Basis of Sale 130. Russian 

 Flaxes, Basis of Sale 131. Examples on Market Equivalents of 

 Flax Prices 132. Summary of Flax Productive Results 



INDEX 153 



