HEMP AND FLAX. 



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£. s. d. £. s. d. 



Value then, 8s. 6il. a stone 17 00 



Expenses - - 14 14 6 



Proftt - - /.-^ 5 6 



Bunching and heckling, is. 6(1. on 40 stone 306 



£.l^ 14 6 



£. 5. d. 

 Value then 40 stone, at los. 6d. 21 o O 

 Expenses - - 17 14 6 



Profit - - £-Z S '^ 



Spinning 10 clews, at 8d. per stone, 6s. 8d. 13 6 8 

 Half bleaching, 40 stone, at 2s. id. (chiefly "I AC 



labour) - - - J 



Winding on bobbins, 40 stone - i O O 



Weaving, 40 stone - - 800 



Bleaching the cloth (nearly all labour), 368 



Total culture and inanafa6lure of every acre £-4.'] 14 6 



A good spinner earns 8d. a day. 



A middling one, 6d. a day. 



A bad one, or child, 4d. a day. 



The weavers, 7s. to 14s. a week. 



Wumen ditto, 10s. or 12s. One girl, 12s. but an ex- 

 traordinary instance. 



The price of dew-retted hemp has risen from 6s. 6d. to 

 8s. 6d. in two years. The war increases the demand for 

 their linens, while the culture of the raw material falls off: 

 this obliges them to mix Russian flax with it, the warp 

 of one sort, the woof of the other: but nothing equals 

 their own hemp for duration and strength. The bounty 



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