CONTENTS. XXI 



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Letter XI 215 



Further Controversy with Mr. Gower and Mr. Rous — Letter of 

 Mr. Edmonds to the Author. " 



Letter XII 219 



Progress of the Flax Cause — The Author answers the Writer of 

 the Norfolk Agricultural Report — Both Fibre and Seed must be 

 saved — Experiments of Mr. Postle — The Author's Advice to 

 Agriculturists. 



Letter XIII. . . . - 224 



Further Controversy with Mr. Gower — Price of Scutching — Mr. 

 Rous's Flax Crop — Gold of Pleasure — Progress of the Flax 

 Cause — The Belgian Method adopted in Norfolk — Messrs. 

 Gibbs on the Gold of Pleasure — Statistics of the Flax Trade. 



Letter XIY 234 



The Author's Reply to the ' Manchester Guardian ' — The Flax 

 Cause supported by the Spinners — Condition of the Labourer. 



Letter XY 242 



The Home versus the Foreign Market — Importation of Oil-Cake 

 and Manure — The Flax Trade in Belgium — Profit of Flax 

 — Apparatus requu-ed for making Compound — Cost of Linseed 

 — Mr. Barker on the Flax Crop — Couch Grass — Food for Pigs 

 and Sheep. 



Letter XVI 252 



The Authors Reply to Mr. Taunton's Letter — ^His Animad- 

 versions on Mr. Taylor's Comparison of Flax with Gold of 

 Pleasure — Concludes the Controversy with Mr. Taylor. 



Letter XYII 263 



Peas should be sown' with Flax — The Author's Bullocks— Flax 

 sown on newly broken up Land — Quantity of Lmseed con- 

 sumed by each Bullock. 



Letter XYIII 267 



Employment of the Rural Population — Mr. Burn on Population 

 and Emigration — How to make the most of the Flax Crop — 

 Agricultui'al Improvement Association — Proposed Rules for a 

 Flax Society. 



Letter XIX. 274 



Free Trade versus Protection — The Flax Crop — Norfolk Soil 

 favourable to Flax — Management — Flax cannot be_^ woven by 

 Machinery. 



Letter XX 280 



The Author's Reply to Mr. Cobden — Success of the Flax Cause. 



