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The long Flax is worth £100 per ton. 

 The wool is worth ... £56 per ton. 

 No. 6. Archangel Flax which cost £68 per ton. 



I4lbs cleaned and prepared by the patent lbs, ozs. 



liquid, produced, long Flax ..... 8 4 



Tow 2 7 



Waste 3 5 



14 



The long Flax fibre is worth £120 per ton. 

 The wool is worth .... £56 per ton. 

 No. 7. Italian Hemp, which cost £50 per ton. 



14lbs. broken, scutched, and prepared by the lbs. ozs. 



patent liquid, produced, long hemp . . 10 14 



Tow 1 9 



Waste 1 9 



14 



The long fibre is worth £70 per ton. 

 The tow is worth £36 per ton. 

 No. 8. Belgian green unretted Flax. 

 14lbs. of this straw prepared by the machines lbs. ozs. 



produced of long green fibre 5 2 



Tow 8 



Total ... 5 10 



No. 9. Belgian retted Flax-straw. 



14lbs by the machines alone produced, of lbs. ozs. 



long fibre - -- -- -- -- 2 15 



Tow - 13 



Total ... 3 12 



No. 10. New Zealand Flax (Phormium Tenax), which was 

 sent by the Society of Arts, who offered fifty guineas 



