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THE author's excursion. 



of this series. On my return I shall be happy to afford the 

 public, through your valuable journal, any useful information 

 that I may be so fortunate as to obtain. 



John Warnes. 



Sept. 1843. 



No. VI. 



Sir, 



An account of the excursion to which I alluded in the 

 conclusion of my last letter, is in some measure anticipated by 

 the report of the meeting of the Ipswich and Ashbocking 

 Farmers Club. To this meeting I was invited as a preliminary 

 step to the formation of a Grand National Association to carry 

 out my plans of finding employment for the redundant popula- 

 tion of the United Kingdom through the cultivation of flax, 

 the forming of the seed into food to fatten cattle, and the fibre 

 into an article of manufacture. 



I had previously been introduced to several highly influen- 

 tial parties in London, Sussex, and Essex ; and it was to me 

 infinitely gratifying, that, though separated by distance, and 

 many unknown to each other, they all acquiesced in the desir- 

 ableness of such an establishment. 



At Ipswich arrangements will be made upon an extensive 

 scale, to aff"ord the clearest information relative to the above 

 object, by an exhibition of flax in all its stages, the various 

 processes connected with its preparation for market, and the 

 method of forming the seed into cattle-food. Model boxes are 

 to be erected, crushing machines and steamers will be ex- 

 hibited at work, and every description of agricultural machine 

 submitted to inspection. In fine, neither expense nor pains will 

 be spared to render the exhibitions at once interesting, in- 

 structive, and profitable. 



This year many acres of flax were grown, and many bullocks 

 fattened with linseed compound in the neighbourhood of Ips- 

 wich. The result of these experiments proving satisfactory. 



