PREP AKIN G FLAX BY HIS PATENTS. 



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DAILY EXPENSE OF MATERIAL AND WAGES. 



()np ton of orppn p ay ofpm 



£3 



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Tjinmn (V,o 



9 







o 



doals 



1 



o 







1 Fnorine man 3s rtpy dfiv 



o 



3 



o 



3 Men attending Flax mills, 3s. each 







9 



o 



24 Women 1 Od. each 



1 











94 Women steemno" and drvino" 









1 Or! oil 



1 







o 



3- Men attending 3 hackling ma- 















9 







12 Women attending the hackling 









machines, lOd each .... 







10 







3 Men attending 3 carding en- 









gines, at 3s. each .... 







9 







12 Women attending the carding 









engines, lOd. each .... 







10 







2 Men in vat room, 3s. each . . 







6 







— £10 16 



My profit in one day in preparing one ton of 



Flax-straw £12 4 



Total number of hands employed (13 men and 72 women), 



equivalent to 85. 



u In addition to the above profit, I can produce from the 

 liquid I use — startling as the assertion may seem — a more 

 valuable article as manure, than guano. For the facts, as to 

 the fertilising nature or properties of the water in which Flax 

 has been steeped, see Sir Robert Kane's Industrial Resources 

 of Ireland, and my experiments on dahlias, &c, as reported 

 in the Gardener's Chronicle, and the Gardener's and Farmer's 

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