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CONTENTS. 



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FURTHER LETTERS ON THE CULTIVATION OF FLAX. 



Letter I. — On the Flax-Crop and the Use of Linseed . . 289 

 Reply to " Cincinnatus " — The Consul of that Name — A farm in 

 Bedfordshire — Profits of Box-feeding — Prices reaUsed by the 

 Author for his Flax. 

 Letter IL— On Flax . . . . . . . 295 



Reply to "An Old Subscriber" — Flax will fail if grown after 

 Turnips — Flax in Bedfordshire — Mr. Druce to the Author — 

 Theoretical Farming. .t-^s^ 

 Letter III.— The Flax Cause— Box-feeding . . . .301 



Reply to " Ignoramus" — Mr. Matthews's Letter to the Author. 

 Concluding Remarks . . . . . . . 306 



Profits of Flax-Growing — Facts connected with the Flax-Crop — 

 Manure — Mr. Nicholls — Sir R. Peel's Donation to the Irish 

 Flax Society — The Author's Exertions in the Flax Cause — A 

 Prize proposed for the best Essay on Flax — Linseed excellent 

 Food for Horses — Conclusion. 



APPENDIX. 



Controversy on the Gold of Pleasure . . . . .321 

 Letters of the Rev. Daniel Gwilt, the Author, &c., on this subject. 



Cultivation of Hemp ....... 332 



The Hemp Plant— Preparation of the Soil — Sowing — Heckling — 

 A Profitable Crop. 



First Annual Report of the National Flax Association . . 335 

 Management during the past Year — Saving the Seed — the Crop 

 not an exhausting one — Machinery for Flax-dressing — Hand- 

 scutching — Hand-spinning — Spread of Information — Factorship 

 — Value of the Fibre— of the Seed— Finances. 

 A Remedy for the Distresses of Norwich .... 347 

 Erection of a Flax-spinning Mill — How to establish the Linen 

 Trade — Distress of small Tradesmen in that City — The Labour- 

 Market. 



Flax Spinners and Agents in England . . . .353 



Irish Flax and Tow Spinners ...... 354 



Irish Flax Merchants and Agents . . . . .355 



Index 357 



