PART III 



The mechanical process of Hackling and Spinning Flax, fully explained— A 

 correct scale, showing the first cost of Flax and description of the numbers 

 up to which each quality is calculated to be spun— Instructions in the art 

 of manufacturing all kinds of Linen Goods from Flax and Tow Yarns, as 

 practised by the Author, in Ireland, for ten years, employing 2,000 Weavers 

 —Tables op Calculations directing parties respecting the use of certain 

 numbers of yarns, and the quantity required for "Warp and Weft for a piece of 

 each sort — Method of counting the Warp and Weft in each piece fully set out 

 on an unerring principle — Observations on the advantages of the above — A 

 series of Letters*published in the Gardener 's Chronicle, Agricultural Gazette, and 

 provincial|Journals, in 1845, 1846 andfrom 1854 to 1864, proving by some dozens 

 of experiments that from £20 to £30 per acre has been frequently made by a 

 proper method of cultivating and preparing Flax. 



MECHANICAL PROCESS OF HACKLING 

 AND SPINNING FLAX AND TOW YARNS 

 IN FACTORIES. 



FLAX when cut (as fine quality often has to be, especially to 

 spin into fine numbers) differs very little (before the fibre is 

 separated from the stem or wood) in app earance from strong 

 coarse force grass. After being separated from the stem, as 

 directed, it changes hands from the farmer to the spinner, 

 whose judgment enables him to assort it according to the 

 qualities or fineness of the fibre, and prepare it for the first 

 process to which it is subject previous to spinning. 



A Flax-spinning mill, with the stores necessary for holding 

 a sufficient supply of Flax should be so constructed that when 

 the rough Flax has been stored, every move it gets afterwards 



