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PLAN OF OPERATIONS. 



muslin, lawn, cambric, &c. &c., pay many thousands every 

 year to foreigners ; and when it is understood that a woman 

 can spin 20s. or SO^. worth of this description of yarn from 

 sixpenny-worth of flax, the importance of introducing such a 

 branch of business into the above establishments will readily 

 be perceived. 



N.B. The National Association will be supported by an- 

 nual subscriptions, donations, and guarantee sums — that is 

 to say, subscriptions and donations will be immediately re- 

 quired to set the machine in motion. But the guarantee sup- 

 port will only be resorted to in case of a deficiency in the So- 

 ciety's funds, and then only in such proportions as may be 

 found necessary. i 



John Warnes, Jun., I 

 Hon. Sec, 



Trimingham, near North Walsham, Norfolk, 



A few acres of linseed should be sown in different parts of 

 a district or county, and on different soils, in order to ascertain 

 those most congenial to the growth of the plant. The seed 

 will abundantly pay for the experiment ; and although the 

 straw will probably be ordinary the first year and the intrinsic i 

 value small, yet for the purpose of teaching young persons the 

 art of steeping, scutching, and preparing for market, &c. &c.,' 

 its value would be great. The flax might be concentrated in 

 some convenient place for water and for house-room; where 

 an instructor could be stationed to teach active and intelligent 

 youths. And thus a number of experienced hands would, soon 

 be distributed, at a little expense, through the country. In- 

 formation and instruction would also be circulated from one 

 society to another, and in the course of three or four j^ears we 

 should be rendered independent of foreigners for a supply of 

 flax for our mills and oil-cake for our cattle. 



What a mine of wealth is here placed before the British 

 agriculturist ! What a field is open for the exercise of his 

 industry and skill ! Can he any longer suffer this mine to be 

 worked and this field to be tilled by foreign labourers, while 

 his own call upon him for work in vain ? The population 

 daily increases to an amazing and alarming extent ; for if we 

 cannot provide employment for the present, where can we find 



