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DICKSON ON 



The patentee having been so successful in his taking off 

 the rheea fibre, from the wood or rod on which it is is pro- 

 duced, by machinery, compared our home-grown willows with 

 it, and finding them similar in appearance, he has been equally 

 successful in producing from the willow plant an excellent 

 article for paper, which he intends including in a new patent 

 he is about to take out for the machine he prepared the willow 

 fibre in. 



FIBRES PREPARED AS SUBSTITUTES FOR FLAX, 

 BY J. HILL DICKSON'S PATENTS, IN 1862-3. 



AND OEDEES OBTAINED EOE THE SAME AS A TRIAL, 

 BY THE FOLLOWING SPINNERS : 



No. Long Fibre. Tow. 



1 Messrs. Marshall & Co., Leeds £70 per ton 

 1 ,, Hives & Atkinson do. £70 ., 



1 „ Benyon & Co. do. £70 „ ' 



2 & 1 „ Wilkinson, do. £60 and £70. £30 and £36. 

 2 „ Briggs & Son do. £30 



2 & 1 • W. Hill & Son do. £60 and £70. £30 and £36. 



2 „ Patterson & Co. do. £30 



No. 1 is taken from Italian hemp, green, nnretted, and 

 cost the patentee £25 per ton, and £10 per ton to 

 prepare by liquid and machines, in aH £35 



No. 2 is taken from New Zealand Flax, and cost £20 

 per ton in London and £10 per ton to prepare by 

 liquid and machinery, in all ........ £30 



From the price the above has been sold at, the shorts, or 

 noils, that cannot be spun, can be sold for paper-making, at the 

 following low prices, and leave a fair profit, viz. : 



£ s. d. 



ljd. per lb., or 14 per ton. 



l|d. „ „ 16 „ 



2d. ., „ 18 18 „ 



2Jd. „ „ 21 „ 



2£d. „ „ 23 6 8 „ 



2fd. „ „ . ... 25 14 „ 



3d. „ „ 28 „ 



