318 



Children, use of, 1 42 



Christian philanthropy,recognition of, 1 67 



Climate, congeniality of, 10 



Cobbett, Mr., reference to, 148 ; misera- 

 ble adherents of, 148 



Cobden, Mr., opposition to the flax 

 cause, 266 ; weapon against free trade, 

 267; want of patriotism, 268 ; invited 

 to Trimingham, 269 



Compound, no general rule for, 209 ; 

 intrinsic value of, 233 ; of turnip-tops, 

 &c., 234; cost per ton, 237; effects of, 

 proved, 13; superior to oil-cake, 29; 

 price of, 48 ; when first invented, 121 ; 

 receipt for sheep, 1 22 ; for bullocks, 

 122; of germinated barley, 124; of 

 potatoes, 124; of turnips, 124; supe- 

 rior to cake, 125 ; for ewes and store- 

 stock, 134 



Consumption, how regulated, 1 



Converts to the cause, 178 



Coppers superior to steamers, 237 



Corn, free-trade in, 147 



Correspondence between the Hon. W. 

 R. Rous and Mr. Warnes, 44 



Cost of preparing flax, 51 



Cotton versus Flax, 270 



Country, welfare of, 23 



Crates for steeping, 113 



Crimes prevented, 227 



Crops of flax grown upon heath-land, 

 173; never failing, 231; the most 

 valuable, 116 



Damask linen, 33 



Demagogue, term explained, 147, 148 



Difficulties, remedy where sought, 145 ; 



surmounted, 272 

 Directions for preparing the land, 263 

 Drying, 98 



Dutch, superiority of, 63 

 Dutch system, ill success of, 95 

 Duty of honest inquiry, 163 

 Dyball's hay and grass cutter, plate of, 



between 135 and 140 



Edmonds, Mr., letter of, 101 

 Employment, want of, a Hydra, 6 ; for 



30 classes, 11 

 Enactments, how controlled, 1 6 

 Enfranchisement of copyholds, 2 

 English Flax Society, first suggestion 



of, 120 

 English versus Foreign Poor, 4 

 English gentleman, rise and fall of, 4 

 Enjoyments, whence derived, 6 

 Ewes, 21 score, fed with linseed at the 



rate of a penny per day per score, 133 

 Exhaustion explained, 64 

 Experience, necessity of, 140 

 Experiment proposed between Turnips, 



Flax, and Peas, 258 

 Experiments, how to he made, 54 



Extract from Bum's " Home Coloniza- 

 tion," 49 ; from Library of Useful 

 Knowledge, 107 



Facts, invitation to consider, 292 



Fears, how calmed, 2 



Farm produce, good return for, 250 



Farmer, the best, 129 



Farmers, indirect importers, 127; ad- 

 verse to trouble, 158; governed by 

 reason, 159 



Farmers' Herald, extract from, 264 



Fattening, degrees of, 130 



Failures, 67 ; in the use of linseed, 146 



Fashion, change of, to whom fatal, 175 



Flax Association, requirements of, 8 ; 

 Report of, 297 ; Improvement Society, 

 origin of, 119 



Flax, introduction .of by the Romans, 

 10 ; produce from ordmary land, 39 ; 

 a double crop; 10-58 ; a golden crop, 

 11-119; properties of, 16; chaff, food 

 for cows, 1 7 ; grown on ordinary 

 land, 18 ; exhausting effects of, ex- 

 plained, 58 ; first prepared specimen 

 of, 19-141; indirect advantages of, 

 59 ; value of, at Tandragee market, 

 34 ; as a fallow crop, 275 ; intro- 

 duced into England, by whom, 56 ; 

 an incentive to the cultivation of waste 

 lands, 61 ; not to be sown after tur- 

 nips, 101 ; after turnips and white 

 peas, 103; caps, necessity of, 114; 

 scutching-mill, plate of, 300; ditto 

 ready for travelling, 303 ; breaking 

 machine, plate of, 301 ; caps, plate of, 

 114; ripplers, plate of, 115; beetlers, 

 plate of, 116; stook, plate of, 142; 

 fork, three-pronged, plate of, 159; 

 suited to garden culture, not recom- 

 mended, 207 ; spinners, anxiety of, 

 227 ; culture profitable, without the 

 possibility of loss, 252 ; dressers, em- 

 ployment of, 253 ; soils, most con- 

 genial for, 256 ; entire management 

 of, easy, 262 



Flax Cause, success of, 46 



Flax Crop, national advantages of, 135 ; 

 versus wheat, 140 ; value of, two-fold, 

 143; disposal of, 143; value of, in 

 Belgium, 144; value of, in Somerset, 

 144; value of, in Ireland, 144; 

 average value of, 144; value of, in 

 Norfolk, 1 44 ; gross mismanagement 

 of, 247 ; as green food, 247 



Flax Societies recommended, 37 



Flemish husbandry, outlines of, 118 



Flies excluded from the boxes, 249 



Foreign reciprocity, 231 



Food, demanded by the nation, 29 ; 



from home resources, 128 

 Foreign cake, consumption of, in West 

 Norfolk, 126 



