KEMP AND FLAX. 



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The difference of price between dew and water-retted 

 used ro be reckoned 2s. a stone ; but is now full 3s. on 

 the average. 



Forty stones of hemp from the break will make 40 

 stones of tow, it being weighed from the break at 141 lb. 

 to the stone, and that of tow is only lO lb. At 6s. 6d. 

 a stone from the break, it is worth 8s. the stone from the 

 heckle. The bunching is valued at 8d. a stone, and the 

 heckling lod. In the House of Industry they have a 

 very simple machine for bunching: men, by turning a 

 winch, move semi-circular cogg'd wheels of iron, which 

 lift, everv moment, one of four perpendicular beaters, 

 and let them tall on the hemp coiled under thein to re- 

 ceive the stroke. 



Estimation of the quantity of hemp raised in the hemp 

 distrifl of Norfolk. 



