CONTENTS. 



PART I, 



PAGE. 



Instructions on the Cultivation of Flax, viz., description of soil best 



suited ... 1 — 4 



Profits realised by growing fine quality 5 — 9 



Chemical manure 10 



Mode of preparing the Land 11 — 14 



Deep Draining indispensable 15 — 16 



Fallacy as to the exhausting effects of Flax on the soil, and rotation 



table in cropping 17—18 



Directions in choice of seed, quantity to be sown per acre, and direc- 

 tions as to sowing 19 — 22 



Weeding, harvesting or pulling the crop 23 — 24 



Taking off the seed, drying and saving 25 — 26 



Mixing of old with new seed — a fraud and injury to Flax-growers . 27 



Watering or retting in Ireland 28 — 30 



Watering, Belgium system most to be recommended .... 31 — 32 



Grassing, or spreading and lifting 33 — 34 



Weeds in Flax, dodder most injurious ...... 35 



Flax-steep, or water in which Flax has been steeped or prepared, 



liquid manure, particularly for flowers ..... 36 — 37 



Flax seed for cattle-feeding in preference to oil-cake, proved by a 

 most experienced and scientific gentleman farmer in Ireland, 



E. McKane, Esq 38—44 



PAET II. 



Instructions on crimping or breaking Flax or hemp straw, rheea or 



similar fibres, green or retted 45 — 46 



Instructions on scraping, scutching, brushing and combing ... 46 



Instructions on washing and wringing 47 



Instructions on using the patent preserving liquid .... 48—50 

 The author's lecture in the Leeds Court House, on the fibres of India 



and his method of preparation, in August, 1858 .... 51 — 57 

 Sir John Ogilvy's letter to the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, on the 



subject of a supply of Flax from India 58 — 60 



PART III. 



Mechanical process of heckling and spinning 61 — 65 



Scale showing the cost of spinning the various numbers, from No. 



22 to No. 180 lea 66—69 



Tables of instructions showing the quantity of warp and weft, and 

 expense of weaving a piece or web of drill, strong, or light 



linens, lawn or cambric handkerchiefs, cost of yarns . . . 70 — 84 



