230 DICKSON ON THE INCREASE AND DECREASE 



14 00 46 J hanks, 60, at 3d. per hank . . .£011 7 J 

 48 hanks, 70, at 2fd. per hank ... 0110 



94± £12 74 



Boiling i 11 



Warping and winding. 12 

 Hand-weaving ... 070 



£1 12 8J 



Or 7 jd. per yard, Brown. 

 14 00 Cost, by power-loom, of Dickson's patent white Flax- 

 yarn 



94J hanks £1 2 7| 



Warping and winding.. 12 



Power-loom weaving =0 3 2^ 



£17 



Or 6£d. per yard, White. 



IRISH SCUTCH-MILLS. 



As the prosperous condition of the north of Ireland is 

 chiefly attributable to the increase of the cultivation, and 

 the spinning and weaving of Flax, I must next call the 

 reader's attention to the increase of machinery for its prepara- 

 tion, and the necessity for such increase, 



In the Appendix to last year's Report, a voluminous 

 government return was given, collected at the suggestion of 

 the society, showing the number, position, and number of 

 stocks, in mills for scutching Flax, in each county, barony, 

 and parish of Ireland, in the year 1852. The return was 

 given thus fully, as it was the first ever made. This year it 

 is not necessary to go into such minute particulars, it being 

 sufficient to show the number of mills and of stocks in each 

 county in 1853, as compared with 1852. The following table 

 will furnish this information : — 



