PREPARING FLAX BY HIS PATENTS. 209 



DAILY EXPENSE OF MATERIAL AND WAGES. 



One ton of green Flax stem ....300 



Liquid, &c 200 



Coals 100 



1 Engine man, 3s. per day. ... 030 



3 Men attending Flax mills, 3s. each 090 



24 Women lOd. each 1 

 24 Women steeping and drying, 



lOd. each 100 



3 Men attending 3 hackling ma- 

 chines, 3s. each 090 



12 Women attending the hackling 



machines, lOd each .... 10 

 3 Men attending 3 carding en- 

 gines, at 3s. each .... -090 

 12 Women attending the carding 



engines, lOd. each .... 10 



2 Men in vat room, 3s. each . . 060 



10 16 



My profit in one day in preparing one ton of 



Flax-straw 12 4 



Total number of hands employed (13 men and 72 women), 

 equivalent to 85. 



(( In addition to the above profit, I can produce from the 

 liquid I use startling as the assertion may seem a more 

 valuable article as manure, than guano. For the facts, as to 

 the fertilising nature or properties of the water in which Flax 

 has been steeped, see Sir Robert Kane's Industrial Resources 

 of Ireland, and my experiments on dahlias, &c., as reported 

 in the Gardener's Chronicle, and the Gardener's and Farmer's 

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