PREPARING FLAX BY HIS PATENTS. 



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One ton of green Flax- straw, undried, will pro- 

 duce, when dried, 15cwt., and that when 

 prepared by my machines, will produce 8001bs., 

 or 57 stones 2 lbs., value £26 per ton, or 3s. 3d. 

 per stone £9 5 



EXPENSES OF MATERIAL AND WAGES. 



One ton of straw or stalks cost. 



£3 

















3 













7 



6 



Four girls drying straw, lOd. each . . 







3 



4 



Three men attending machines, at 















7 



6 



Twenty-four girls, at lOd. each .... 



1 











£5 1 4 



Nett profit on one ton of green straw . . . £4 4 3 

 As I take the Flax in the green clamp state as it comes 

 from the field, and one acre will produce 2 -Hons, it is 

 evident that the farmer who gets from £3 to £4 per ton for 

 his straw must have from £8 to £10 fair profit, as the seed is 

 worth more than the rent and labour. 



Having calculated selling the Flax in the green state 

 at the low price of £26 per ton, whilst the lowest price 

 of Riga Flax is £32 per ton, I will give an average of 

 the expense and profit of preparing a ton in Norfolk, where 

 it is largely grown. One of the most extensive practical 

 growers of Flax in that county says, he can produce 20 stones 

 or 280lbs., out of one ton of Flax-straw. Let us suppose he 

 gets 8s. 9d. per stone, or £70 per ton, a high price for 

 English Flax, and we find matters stand thus : — - 

 One ton of straw produces 20 stones of fibre at 



8s. 9d. per stone £8 15 



