CONTENTS. 



xix 



Captain Skinner's Speech to the Tenants of the Earl of Erne . 99 

 Quantity of Flax grown in Ireland — Specimens exhibited — Models 

 of various Machines. 



Mr. Henderson on the Management of Flax .... 101 

 Best Soil for Flax — Rotation — Preparation— Sowing — Weeding — 

 Ripening — Pulling — Steeping — Spreading — Lifting — Drying — 

 Breaking — Scutching — Injury done to Flax by Water oozing 

 from the Sides of the Steeping- Pond. 



Letter from Messrs. Marshall & Co. to the Author . .107 

 Their Importations of Flax — Opinion that it could be advantage- 

 ously grown in Britain— Demand for fine Flax — Offers of 

 Assistance. 



Letter from Mr. Edmonds, of Stonehouse, to the Author . 109 



Has long cultivated Flax — Seed — Preparation of Land — Flax will 

 fail if sown after Turnips. 



Letter from Messrs. Marshall & Co. to the Author . . 110 

 Price of Flax in Belgium— Retting. 



Profits of Growing Flax 112^ 



Produce of Three Statute Acres of Flax in Ireland. 



On Saving of Flax Seed . ib. 

 Mr. Wolstenholme's Flax-Crop — Value — Ireland eminently 

 adapted for Flax-Culture. 



Description of the Flax Plant . . . . . .114 



Its Characteristics unaltered by Difference of Climate — Fibre — 

 Seed — Easy of Growth — Most favourable Soils — Sowing — 

 When to pull, and how^ to save the Seed — Water-Retting in 

 Holland — In Belgium — The Lys — Drying the Bundles — Mr. 

 Hardy on Flax-Dressing and Steeping — The Author's Method 

 — No Objection to the Growth of Flax — Produce of various 

 Fields of Flax. 



Sir C. M. Burreli's Letter to the Author . . , .124 

 His Adoption of the System of Box-Feeding — Elevation and 

 Ground Plan of his Boxes — He incloses the Calculations of Mr. 

 Daubuz and Colonel Wyndham — His Views on Fattening Cattle 

 with Compound are much approved by Agriculturists. 



Suggestions on Fattening Cattle with Native Produce . .129 

 Agriculture of the Netherlands — Irish Flax Society^ — Fattening 

 Properties of Linseed — Farmers' Clubs — The Author's Bullocks. 



Directions for making Compound . . . . .134 

 Compound for Sheep — For Bullocks— Moulds — Foreign Oil-cake 

 — Prices of Barley and Cake — Foreign Manures — Lucern — 

 Potatoes — Degrees of Fattening. 



