218 DICKSON ON THE WEIGHT AND PROFITS OF 



The long Flax is worth 100 per ton. 

 The wool is worth ... 56 per ton. 

 No. 6. Archangel Flax which cost 68 per ton. 

 I4lbs cleaned and prepared by the patent Ibs, ozs. 



liquid, produced, long Flax 8 4 



Tow 2 7 



Waste 3 5 



14 



The long Flax fibre is worth 120 per ton. 

 The wool is worth . . . . 56 per ton. 

 No. 7. Italian Hemp, which cost 50 per ton. 

 14lbs. broken, scutched, and prepared by the Ibs. ozs. 



patent liquid, produced, long hemp . . 10 14 



Tow 1 9 



Waste . 1 9 



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The long fibre is worth 70 per ton. 

 The tow is worth 36 per ton. 

 No. 8. Belgian green unretted Flax. 

 14lbs. of this straw prepared by the machines Ibs. ozs. 



produced of long green fibre 5 2 



Tow 8 



Total ... 5 10 

 No. 9. Belgian retted Flax-straw. 



14lbs by the machines alone produced, of Ibs. ozs. 



long fibre --------- 2 15 



Tow 13 



Total ... 3 12 



No. 10. New Zealand Flax (Phormium Tenax), which was 

 sent by the Society of Arts, who offered fifty guineas 



