MACHINERY, LABOUR, AND PROFIT. 



321 



This estimate being made out when I made use of the patents 

 taken out in 1859, for preparing material for silk, worsted and 

 Flax-spinners only, the liquid cost £6 per ton, but by my late 

 discovery for cottonizing such fibres for cotton- spinners use, 

 the liquid will not cost £2 per ton. 



Six tons of Dickson's prepared clean fine 

 white finished Flax, worth £75 per 



ton 450 



Forty-two tons of 

 Flax -straw £4 



per ton 168 



Deduct ^ Wages for breaking 



and scutching ... 29 

 Liquid, £5 per ton 30 



Coals 6 



■ 233 



Net weekly profit . 

 or £11,284 per annum. 



£217 



Five tons of Dickson's prepared Italian 

 green hemp, white and fine, £70 per 



ton ... ... 



' Cost of six tons of 

 broken Italian 



hemp 125 



Deduct <{ Scutching at £4 per 



ton, wages ... 20 



Liquid 20 



Coals 6 



350 



£171 



x 



Net weekly profit 

 or £9,308 per annum. 



. £179 



