AGRICULTURE ON THE RHIN] 



219 



EXPERIMENTS MADE IN DRESSING THE FLAX OF ONE 

 MORGEN. 



Steeped in Water 



Flax 

 Scutched . I 284 

 Heckled .148 



Dressed lbs. , 14s; 



row 



140 

 13? 



£ s. 

 Market \ 



Value . 1 ^ ^° 

 Cost of I 



Dressing j 



Profit . 



5 14 



Kuthe's Brake 

 Machine. 



Flax|To-.v Flax Tow 



320 72, ^98, 4'^ 

 154 154: 141 



226i 154 183 



£ s. rf £ S. d 

 10 9 4 9 16 1 



2 7 10 2 4 8 



1 6 



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as far as it is practicable, and some have suggested that it 

 should be authoritatively, limited. But even these have 

 brought forward no resource for those who, by such a 

 measure, are deprived of their share of the land. It has 

 not been pointed out that the land is only one part of the 

 capital of a nation, and that as much folly lies in devoting 

 all energies to its cultivation as would be shown by at- 

 tempting to carry on trade or manufactures in a large 

 state to the exclusion of agriculture. 



The notion that the capitalist puts the whole profit on 

 a large estate into his pocket without sharing it with his 

 neighbours, is at the bottom of this wish to encourage 

 small properties in land and small manufacturing esta- 

 blishments. Those who advocate this system point to 

 large estates where a number of labourers are poorly fed 

 and live in dependence, while the owners live in power 



