PREPARING FLAX BY HIS PATENTS. 



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farmer can derive from cultivating and preparing one acre of 

 Flax in the usual way, let me call his attention to the saving 

 of expense, time, and the avoidance of loss by decomposition, 

 which are effected by my system being carried out. 



FLAX (DICKSON'S PATENTS). 



DB. s. d. 

 To one acre of 



land >.. 169 



2 bushels Seed 126 

 Ploughing and 



sowing ,. 012 



Weeding ,. 10 



Pulling ,..,' 12 



6 



Taking off seed 



Poor Kates and 

 taxes . 



Carriage 



}) Scutching 114st. 

 of green Flax- 

 straw , 19 



10 



050 



633 



OR. s. d. 



By 2J tons of Flax- 

 straw (produce 

 114:st. of green 

 Flax-straw) at 

 4s, per stone ,,. 22 16 



., 28 stones of tow 

 at 2s. per stone 2 16 



16bsls. seed at 



103. per bushel 800 



33 12 



Deduct expenses 



of production ,., 6 3 3 



Nett profit on 1 

 acre of Flax sold 

 green 27 8 9 



Now, as the above profits proceed from Flax being broken 

 and scutched by machinery, in the green unretted state, just 

 as it comes from the field, let me go a stage further in the 

 process or patent system that I have discovered, in addition 

 to my patent machines for breaking, scutching, and hackling 

 Flax, hemp, and other fibres, that I have made equally 

 valuable with Flax and hemp for many purposes. 



I find by experiment and calculation that 14lbs. of green 

 fibre will produce, when prepared by my patent liquid, 9lbs. 

 long white Flax, and 2lbs. loz. of tow, leaving 2lbs. 15ozs. 



