MANUFACTURE OF LINEN DRILL. 



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coat; and thus he can have the materials for making those 

 necessary articles of clothing from home production : coat, 

 middle quality, for 3s. Id., and trowsers Is. 5d., total 4s. 6d. 

 And as health is the only capital that the farm-labourer has to 

 depend upon, a couple of suits of such clothing would enable 

 him TO BE ALWAYS CLEAN, and as a consequence, in better 

 health and more able to do his work. 



As it is my wish to submit matter likely to interest and 

 benefit the farmers and agricultural labourers, I shall here add 

 a rule for calculating and counting A LINEN DRILL, which I 

 DEFY being found in error, as the same has been my guide FOR 

 MANY YEARS, when I had from 1,500 to 2,000 weavers 

 employed in the manufacture of this article ; and as merchants 

 and shippers are OFTEN DECEIVED in the purchase of this article 

 from parties calling and selling them for beers, or sets of a 

 much finer quality than they will count, I beg to say that with 

 a proper linen glass and a reference to the following table, they 

 cannot be taken advantage of when they count the ivarp and 

 weft. 



CALCULATION TO MAKE A LINEN-DRILL WEB OF 

 84 OR 85 YARDS. 



