MANUFACTURE OF FLAX AND LINEN. 73 



and known by 14° °, allowing twopence per yard for bleaching) 

 1 beg of the reader to observe the price of the Flax from which 

 the yarns require to be spun, and from which those goods 

 are made ; and let him not forget that in growing Flax that 

 will bring £72 per ton, the farmer has not only a clear profit 

 of £21 per acre, but he prevents millions of gold, which 

 would give extensive employment to our agricultural population, 

 from being annually exported to the continent ; and as there is 

 nothing to prevent the inhabitants in every rural district or 

 county in England and Ireland from growing and manu- 

 facturing the linen articles required for family uses, just as the 

 small farming population in the North of Ireland do, and 

 which has added much to their prosperity and comfort, I do 

 hope that, if the facts herein explained (showing what 

 additional employment the cultivation of Flax will give to the 

 agricultural classes) will not stir up a feeling in the minds of 

 the farmers of Britain to try experiments that the temptations 

 of extra profit must induce them to bestir themselves ; more- 

 over it appears to me that the manufacturers have carried out 

 their wishes for open ports and a free trade in corn, farmers 

 should not only he up and doing, but glad of being made 

 aware that they can cultivate an article sufficient to meet the 

 payment of the chief demand — the Kent — regardless of 



CORN-LAWS OR PROTECTING-DTJTLES. 



As the buyers of shirting, or what is called 4-4ths linen, 

 cannot be aware of the manufacturer's terms for the various 

 qualities called sets, 1 shall first give the present list of prices 

 in the white, or bleached state. 



Quality 4-4ths 



900 



1Q oo 



II 00 



12 00 



13 oo 



14 oo 



15 oo 



16 03 



Price 



8id. 



lOd. 



lOfd. 



ll^d. 



12±d. 



12fd. 



13jd. 



14id. 



Quality 4-4 ths 



17°° 



lg oo 



19°° 



20°° 



21°° 



22°° 



23°° 



2400 



Price 



I5jd. 



16id. 



18d. 



20 Jd. 



22d. 



24d. 



26d. 



32d. 



The above being the price in the bleached state, in 1845, in 



