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PROFITS OF GROWING FLAX. 



The following statement was read at an Agricultural Market Din- 

 ner, at Market Hill, Armagh, on the \Mh December, 1843. 



Produce of three Statute Acres of Flax, — 100 stones at 155.= 

 75Z. ; each stone calculated to produce 5J lbs. of dressed flax 

 — in all 550 lbs. — spun to 30 hanks to the lb., will produce 

 16,500 hanks. About 158 females will be employed 12 months 

 in spinning, at the rate of two hanks per week (six working 

 days) : wages for spinning each hank, about \s. Sd., or nearly 

 7d. per diem for each spinner. This quantity of yarn would 

 make 210 webs of cambric pocket-handkerchiefs, each web con- 

 taining five dozen. About 18 weavers would be 12 months 

 weaving this quantity, allowing each man a month for each 

 web (17 J weavers exactly) ; wages per web 21. ; or from 9^. 6d. 

 to ]0s. per man per week. About 40 females would be em- 

 ployed 12 months in needlework (hemstitch or veining) ; each 

 could do one handkerchief on each working day ; wages, 85. per 

 dozen, or Sd. per day. The goods, when finished, would be 

 worth 21. lOs. per dozen. 



158 spinners 12 months, or 52 weeks, at about 3*. 4d. 



per week £1369 6 8 



18 weavers 12 months, at 24/. per annum . . 420 

 40 needlewomen 52 weeks, at 4^. each per week . 426 



216 persons employed. — 



Amount of wages £2195 6 8 



Cost of flax 75 



£2270 6 8 



Value of 1050 dozen handkerchiefs, at 21. lOs. per 



dozen . . . . . . . . £2625 



Profit . . . . . £ 354 13 4 



On saving of Flax Seed. From Irish Farmer and Gardener s 



Magazine. 



Mr. Wolstenholme sowed, early in April last year, fifteen 

 Irish acres with Dutch seed of excellent quality, purchased 



