PROFITS BY GROWING FLAX. 7 



quality that will draw more than 6d. per cwt. over him, your 

 account under the most prosperous circumstances, for one acre 

 of Wheat, could not be above . . . 14 

 Then deduct Rent, and expenses 5 10 



Thus it appears the profits on one acre is 8 10 



In respect to the Flax crop, however, you may exceed that 

 of your neighbours, not only by extra quantity due to good 

 cultivation, but you may also exceed him by producing 

 superior quality by better handling after harvesting or 

 pulling ; thus taking a middling crop of Flax, say 52 stone at 

 8s. 6d. per "stone 22 2s. ; the seed being nearly sufficient 

 to cover the Rent and Labour expenses, this sum will be, not 

 only all the profit that can be made, but as I have said 

 previously, it is possible to make it much more than 22 2s. 

 You may grow it worth 10s. up to 20s. per stone, whereas, it 

 is not possible for you to grow Wheat worth more than 5s. pep 

 bushel, or 6d. per bushel over your neighbour ; for extra care 

 at the harvest can make no change on Wheat, nor can you by 

 any means improve the quality, as you do in the Flax 

 preparation. By these facts I prove that Farmers have a 

 premium offered them by cultivating Flax, that is not to 

 be had from the cultivation of any of the natural crops of 

 Great Britain and Ireland. 



Having selected the production of Flax and seed 'off 4 

 statute acres, to prove my theory being practical, as to the 

 weight of one acre's produce, I must call the reader's 

 attention to the following : 



His ROYAL HIGHNESS, the late and much lamented PRINCE 

 CONSORT, favored me with the privilege of placing his name 

 at the top of my list of subscribers as patron to my first Work 

 on the Improved system of Flax cultivation in 1847, and as 

 the 4J acres alluded to were grown on His Royal Highness's 

 model farm, where his oxen and pigs, for which he had 



