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the Ninth Report of the Flax Improvement Society, read at a 

 meeting held a few weeks ago in Dublin. Although, we fear, 

 Galway is doomed to stand almost alone in apathy, and that no 

 efforts of the press will shake their slumbers here, yet we 

 shall have the gratification of placing the value of an im- 

 proved system of agriculture from time to time before 

 their eyes." EDITOR'S REMARKS in the Tuam Herald 

 December 29th, 1849. 



LETTER IX. 



EESULTS OF PRACTICE IN FLAX CULTURE V. PEOFESSOR LOWE'S 

 THEORETICAL WRITINGS. 



Verite sans peur ; Inexperience est la maitresse des faus. 

 To the Editor of the " Tuam Herald: 9 



" SIR, Interested as you must be in the wide circulation 

 of the Herald, and anxious as you must feel for the pros- 

 perity of trade and the interest of agriculture, for on such 

 conditions depend the ability of your subscribers to dis- 

 charge your annual demand, and as I think that anything 

 likely to draw public attention will benefit these interests, 

 if published, and again meet with your approval, I must 

 therefore, without ardenta verba, solicit you to give this 

 letter a place in your journal, as I think it is just in time 

 to serve the agricultural and commercial interests of the 

 country; but as my statements may be thought by surface 

 readers too highly coloured, and promising, to such I say, 

 audi altrem partem in dispute, from an extract taken from 

 Professor Lowe's writings, and published in the Cork Constitu- 

 tion newspaper, and judge for yourselves. 



"Being favoured by a friend with a copy of the Cork 



Constitution, I was struck with an article in it, headed 



' Professor Lowe on Flax-cultivation ;' and as it appears 



the extract has been taken from a publication that is known 



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