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amount to 1,820 per week, or 94,640 a year. The 

 yield of flax, at four tons per acre, would be 3,120 tons, 

 and its value, at 40 per ton, be 124,800. The seed, at 

 16 bushels per acre, and at 5s. per bushel, would amount 

 to 49,926; flax and seed to 174,720, from which 

 deducting wages, the sum of 80,080 is left, from this 

 also must be taken rent, tithes, rates, and tillage, at 3 per 

 acre, and the remainder will be the net profit, viz. : 

 ;C42,640 or 3. 10s. per acre the value of the tow, 

 broken bolls, and refuse, being set against the cost for 

 manure. Ten shillings per week are allowed for first-class, 

 and 8s. for second-class men; 5s. for women, or for 

 young persons of both sexes ; and 2s. for children. 



The following remarkable statement of the produce of 

 three statute acres of flax, was read at an Agricultural 

 Market Dinner, at Market Hill, Armagh, on the 14th of 

 December, 1843. 



One hundred stones at 155.= 75 ; each stone cal- 

 culated to produce 5ybs. of dressed flax, in all 5501bs. 

 spun to 30 hanks to the Ib. will produce 16,500 hanks. 

 About 158 females will be employed 12 months in 

 spinning, at the rate of two hanks per week (six working 

 days); wages for spinning each hank, about Is. 8d., or 

 nearly Id. per day for each spinner. This quantity of 

 yarn would make 210 webs of cambric pocket-hand- 

 kerchiefs, each web containing five dozen. About 18 

 weavers would be 12 months weaving this quantity, 

 allowing each man a month for each web (17^ weavers 

 exactly); wages per web 2, or from 9s. 6d. to 10s. per 

 man per week. About 40 females would be employed 

 12 months in needlework (hemstitch or veining); each 

 could do one handkerchief on each working day ; wages, 8s. 

 per doze*n, or Sd. per day. The goods, when finished, 

 would be worth 2. 10s. per dozen. 



