vi PREFACE 



Incidentally, the future of the Linen Industry depends 

 primarily for its continued success and increase upon the 

 supply of its raw material flax, and it is hoped that this 

 treatise will contribute to encourage many to grow flax who 

 hitherto never attempted to do so, perhaps, from a lack 

 of knowledge of the subject, its natural importance and its 

 remunerative possibilities. At the same time the work should 

 be helpful in its suggestions to all others interested in the 

 growth, preparation, spinning, weaving and distribution of 

 linen materials. 



My thanks are due to Mr. A. R. Hogg for permission to use 

 many of his excellent photographs, most of which were pre- 

 pared in collaboration with the author ; also to Mr. W. A. 

 Green, photographer, Belfast, for a like privilege. 



I am also indebted to Mr. G. Holt for his assistance, freely 

 given, when dealing with soils and manures, and to Mr. F. M. 

 Walker for many valuable suggestions in respect to flax seed 

 and methods of harvesting same. 



F. BRADBURY. 



