PROFITS BY GROWING FLAX. 9 



to the poor. I, like many others who live under and never 

 begrudged to pay the taxes required to keep up the dignity 

 of a monarchy, expecting and delighting to see and believe, 

 that the crown is worn by a virtuous ruler and never polluted, 

 annoyed, or disappointed by marriage, watched the move- 

 ments of the lamented Prince from the day of his marriage 

 to our good and virtuous Queen with great delight and satis- 

 faction up to the day when it pleased God to call him to 

 another home more glorious and everlasting, and I can say, 

 without flattery in recording in this book my humble opinion 

 of the character of the late and truly good Prince Consort, 

 " that his like we ne'er shall look upon again," and I do 

 sincerely pray, that his son, His Koyal Highness the Prince 

 of Wales, may walk uprightly in his lamented fathers footsteps, 

 in order that he may be equally loved as his father was, by the 

 humblest as well as the most exhalted of Her Majesty's subjects. 



I shall add on produce a paragraph from an Irish Newspaper, 

 as evidence in favour of what I say may be done by extra 

 attention, in the cultivation and preparation of Flax : 



" EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCE. Mr. J. Corry of Mullan- 

 "bury in the neighbourhood of Dromore, sowed last 

 "season (1857) 15 pecks of Eiga Flax seed on ONE 

 "ACRE and half a rood of his farm, the produce 

 "when scutched at the Fintona Flax Mills amounted to 

 U 120 stones payable, for this he received 9s. per stone 

 "in the Omagh market of Saturday, thus realizing a sum 

 " of 54." This is answer sufficient to upset the remarks of 

 the editor of the " Standard" newspaper, who asserts that there 

 was a decrease of Flax in Ireland from 1851 to 1858 because 

 it was not found to pay. 



To these experiments I shall add several accounts of other 

 Farmers in the counties of Down, Armagh, and Antrim, the 

 leading Flax districts in Ireland, and also some English 

 experiments. 



