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from Messrs. Toole and Co., four bushels to the Irish acre 

 These fifteen acres produced 345 bushels of excellent seed, 

 which were sold to average — 



Is. 6d. per bushel, making . . . . £129 1 6 



He has in flax produce, already scutched 850 st. of 14 lbs. 

 To scutch, at least . . . 200 do. 



1050 stone: 

 Or 6 tons, 11 cwt., 1 qr., for which he has been offered 



60/. per ton, amounting to , . . . 393 15 



Being for the fifteen Irish acres . . . £523 2 6 



Or, per acre ...... £34 17 6 



The average value of Irish flax may be at present esti- 

 mated at from 45/. to 501. per ton — so that, instead of the flax 

 having been injured by the saving of the seed, the crop has, by 

 good management, produced an article exceeding in value from 

 20 to 33i per cent, the average of the country. 



Mr. Wolstcnholme has this year sown forty Irish acres with 

 flax, viz. — 

 35 acres with seed of his own saving. 



2 with Riga. 



3 with Dutch. 



The seed of his own saving was sown three or four days 

 after the foreign, but came up before it, a much stronger plant 

 and thicker in the ground, although the same quantity of 

 each was grown — and to this moment promises to be a superior 

 crop. 



Computing that 100,000 Irish acres are sown, and that the 

 crop of seed be but 20 bushels per acre, and the price only 6s. 

 for crushing, still the value of the seed crop would be 600,000/. ; 

 and if the crop of flax on 100,000 acres yielded only 7 cwt. per 

 acre, or 35,000 tons. 



This quantity at 45/. would be . . . . ' £1,575,000 

 at 50/. 1,750,000 



And, therefore, the increased value, if at 60/., by superior 

 management, would be a further gain of from 350,000/. to 



