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Profits made by cultivating Flax proved by letters published in the 

 " Gardener's Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette " the " Leeds 

 IntelHgencer," "Bell's Messenger," and several other Journals, 

 where growers had realized from £20 to £30 per acre over cost 

 of production . , 85 — 97 



Sir E. Kane's experiments proving before the Royal Irish Academy 

 that the fibre is comprised of organic matters derived from 

 water and the atmosphere, and not an exhausting, but absolutely 

 a restorative crop, if properly cultivated and finished for market 98 — 100 



Belfast Flax Society meeting at Ballinasloe and the several Flax- 

 growers in support of the author, having condemned Mr. 

 Stephens, the author of the "Book of the Farm, " for his theo- 

 retical teaching respecting Flax as being an unprofitable crop 101 — 115 



Mr. Stephens's letter in reply to the author's letter in the 



" Agricultural Gazette " 116 — 117 



The author's reply to that letter 118—120 



The author's letter to the "Leeds Intelligencer," showing where 

 1a. 3k. 16p. of land produced Flax sufficient to employ 217 

 persons twelve months and produced £2,217 6s. 8d. worth of 

 goods for export 121 — 124 



Dickson on his Flax mills being erected in workho uses, — -Earl 

 Clancarty's letter for information on the cost, and Dickson's 

 reply now in 1864, with a view to Flax as a substitut e for cotton 125 — 128 



The late Mr. James Brown's remarks on the good that would result 

 if the linen trade was extended to the south and west of 

 Ireland, and workhouses abolished and turned into Flax- 

 mills. The most noble the Marquis of Downshire's reply . 129 — 131 



The author's letter on the regeneration of Ireland, proving what Mr. 

 T. H. Sotheron Estcourt, M.P., did on his farm in TV ilts, by 

 having one of his Flax-breaking and scutching mills put to 

 work where yarn or linen had not been made, that the same 

 could be done in Ireland 132 — 144 



The author's letter in answer to Professor Lowe's letter in the 

 "Cork Constitution," giving the practical result of Flax- 

 growing on the estate of Sir T. Bateson, by a gentleman 

 farmer, Mr. Hugh Dobbin, near Moira, and several other 

 growers, all of which proved the Professor's theoretical views 

 were erroneous . . 145 — 158 



The late Bight Hon. Sir J. Graham's speech on Flax-growin g, and 

 his notice of Mr. Samuel Druce, of Esham, Oxon, profits on 

 5a. 2e. 6p 158—160 



The author's answer to the Editor of the London " Standard," 

 against the increase of Flax-culture and the linen trade in 



