CONTENTS. XI 



Profits made by cultivating Flax proved by letters published in the 

 "Gardener's Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette," the "Leeds 

 Intelligencer," " Bell's Messenger," and several other Journals, 

 where growers had realized from 20 to 30 per acre over cost 



of production 85 97 



Sir R. Kane's experiments proving before the Royal Irish Academy 

 that the fibre is comprised of organic matters derived from 

 water and the atmosphere, and not an exhausting, but absolutely 

 a restorative crop, if properly cultivated and finished for market 98100 

 Belfast Flax Society meeting at Ballinasioe and the several Flax- 

 growers in support of the author, having condemned Mr. 

 Stephens, the author of the "Book of the Farm, " for his theo- 

 retical teaching respecting Flax as being an unprofitable crop 101 115 

 Mr. Stephens's letter in reply to the author's letter in the 



" Agricultural Gazette " 116 117 



The author's reply to that letter 118 120 



The author's letter to the "Leeds Intelligencer," showing where 

 IA. 3n. 16r. of land produced Flax sufficient to employ 217 

 persons twelve months and produced 2,217 6s. 8d. worth of 



goods for export 121 124 



Dickson on his Flax mills being erected in workhouses, Earl 

 Clancarty's letter for information on the cost, and Dickson's 

 reply now in 1864, with a view to Flax as a substitute for cotton 125 128 

 The late Mr. James Brown's remarks on the good that wo uld result 

 if the linen trade was extended to the south and west of 

 Ireland, and workhouses abolished and turned into Flax- 

 mills. The most noble the Marquis of Downshire's reply . 129131 

 The author's letter on the regeneration of Ireland, proving what Mr. 

 T. H. Sotheron Estcourt, M.P., did on his farm in W ilts, by 

 having one of his Flax-breaking and scutching mills put to 

 work where yarn or linen had not been made, that the same 



could be done in Ireland 132 144 



The author's letter in answer to Professor Lowe's letter in the 

 "Cork Constitution," giving the practical result of Flax- 

 growing on the estate of Sir T. Bateson, by a gentleman 

 farmer, Mr. Hugh Dobbin, near Moira, and several other 

 growers, all of which proved the Professor's theoretical views 



were erroneous 145158 



The late Right lion . Sir J. Graham's speech on Flax-growin g, and 

 his notice of Mr. Samuel Druce, of Esham, Oxon, profits on 



5A.2R.6p 158160 



The author's answer to the Editor of the London " Standard," 

 against the increase of Flax-culture and the linen trade in 



