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that they have everything to learn on the Flax question, and 

 that to study for a season under Professor Drace at Enskam, 

 would greatly benefit them. 



November, 1864. — Having written to Mr. Druce a few 

 weeks ago to inform him of my new invention for cottonizing 

 Flax, I had the satisfaction to know he still continues to grow 

 the crop largely, although his method of preparing the fibre for 

 market is still very imperfect and expensive, however, I shall 

 select him as one of the first to have one of my latest improved 

 machines, in order to open up fresh ground by the introduction 

 of a better and more profitable mode of working, with a view 

 to avoid by early attention the awful consequences predicted 

 (from the "Flax movement in Ireland,") by the assumed 

 knowledge and warning on the part of the Editor of the 

 Standard newspaper, — I hope to show him as I did the 

 Editor of the Mark Lane Express, some years ago, that he 

 has touched on a subject that he requires to know more of 

 before he writes again, like Professor Lowe, on its condem- 

 nation. 



