CONTENTS. 



PAET I. 



PAGE. 



Instructions on the Cultivation of Flax, viz., description of soil best 



suited 1 4 



Profits realised by growing fine quality 5 9 



Chemical manure 10 



Mode of preparing the Land 11 14 



Deep Draining indispensable . . ." , . . . 15 16 

 Fallacy as to the exhausting effects of Flax on the soil, and rotation 



table in cropping 17 18 



Directions in choice of seed, quantity to be sown per acre, and direc- 

 tions as to sowing 19 22 



Weeding, harvesting or pulling the crop 23 24 



Taking off the seed, dry ing and saving 25 26 



Mixing of old with new seed a fraud and injury to Flax-growers . 27 



Watering or retting in Ireland . . . 28 30 



Watering, Belgium system most to be recommended .... 31 32 



Grassing, or spreading and lifting 33 34 



Weeds in Flax, dodder most injurious ....:. 35 

 Flax-steep, or water in which Flax has been steeped or prepared, 



liquid manure, particularly for flowers ..... 36 37 

 Flax seed for cattle-feeding in preference to oil-cake, proved by a 

 most experienced and scientific gentleman farmer in Ireland, 



E. McKane, Esq 3844 



PAET II. 



Instructions on crimping or breaking Flax or hemp straw, rheea or 



similar fibres, green or retted ....... 45 46 



Instructions on scraping, scutching, brushing and combing ... 46 



Instructions on washing and wringing 47 



Instructions on using the patent preserving liquid .... 48 50 

 The author's lecture in the Leeds Court House, on the fib res of India 



and his method of preparation, in August, 1858 .... 51 57 

 Sir John Ogilvy's letter to the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, on the 



subject of a supply of Flax from India 58 60 



PAET III. 



Mechanical process of heckling and spinning 61 65 



Scale showing the cost of spinning the various numbers, from No. 



22 to No. 180 lea 66 69 



Tables of instructions showing the quantity of warp and weft, and 

 expense of weaving a piece or web of drill, strong, or light 



linens, lawn or cambric handkerchiefs, post of yarns . . . 70 84 



