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" Hemhury Fort, Hmiton, March 19M, 1846. 

 " I enclose the account of my flax, which I have put down 

 low, so that I may be within the mark. * * * We shall certainly 

 require the services of one of your Belgian flax-dressers in this neigh- 

 bourhood. * * * 



" Debt and Credit of one Acre : 



^' Ploughing three times 

 Seed, two bushels 

 Working in ... 



Pulling .... 

 Dressing Flax, two packs an acre 

 Rent ..... 



By Seed, sixteen bushels at 7*. 

 Flax, two packs, at 6/. per pack 



£. s. d. 



1 



1 



2 6 



10 

 3 



1 10 



" William Porter." 



I Clear 



' "Sir, 



" Having grown a very excellent crop of flax last season on a 

 piece of poor undrained clay land, with the application of two cwt. of 

 guano ; and having thrashed the seed a short time since (23 bushels 

 per acre), I request to know whether I should prepare the fibre ac- 

 cording to the Trent-side system. * * * I may add, that I am so 

 well pleased with flax as a fallow-crop, that I intend to sow ten acres 

 this year. * * * Linseed is now very dear, being ten shillings per 

 bushel. 



" W. J. Nicholson." 



In an official document, for 1846, taken from the Fifth 

 Annual Report of the Irish Flax Society, " Presented by order 

 of Her Majesty," I perceive that the profits upon one acre of 

 flax, English measure, would be 201, as follows : 



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