MACHINERY, LABOUR, AND PROFIT. 



321 



This estimate being made out when I made use of the patents 

 taken out in 1859, for preparing material for SILK, WORSTED and 

 FLAX-SPINNERS only, the liquid cost 6 per ton, but by my late 

 discovery for COTTONIZING such fibres for COTTON- SPINNERS use, 

 the liquid will not cost 2 per ton. 



Six tons of Dickson's prepared clean fine 

 white finished Flax, worth 75 per 



ton 450 



Forty-two tons of 

 Flax-straw 4 

 per ton 168 







Deduct < 



Wages for breaking 



and scutching ... 29 



Liquid, 5 per ton 30 



Coals 600 



233 



Net weekly profit 

 or 11,284 per annum. 



.. 217 



Five tons of Dickson's prepared Italian 

 green hemp, white and fine, 70 per 



ton 350 



Cost of six tons of 

 broken Italian 

 hemp 125 



Deduct < 



Scutching at 4 per 



ton, wages ... 20 



Liquid 20 



Coals 600 







-171 



Net weekly profit 

 or 9,308 per annum. 



...179 



