PROFIT PER ACRE OF FLAX. 



307 



Hembury Fort, Honiton, March I9th, 1846. 



^' I enclose the account of my flax, which I have put down 

 low, so that I may be within the mark. * * * "VV^e shall certainly 

 require the services of one of your Belgian flax-dressers in this neigh- 

 bourhood. * * * 



Debt and Credit of one Acre : 





£. 



s. 



d. 



^ PImiP'liinp* thrpp timP"5i 



JL U.c^ l.lXJ.JCi;L LXAiV-'V' ClillV-O • « 4 



1 











Seed, two bushels 



1 











Working in ... . 







2 



6 



X Uillllg • . . . • 



A 



u 





n 

 u 



Dressing flax, two packs an acre 



3 











Rent . . . . . 



1 



10 









7 



2 



6 



By Seed, sixteen bushels at 7^. 



5 



12 







Flax, two packs, at 6/. per pack 



12 













17 



12 









7 



2 







Clear 



10 



10 







'^William Porter." 

 Willoughton Grange, Spittal, March 17 fh, 1846. 



Sir, 



Having grown a very excellent crop of flax last season on a 

 piece of poor undrained clay land, with the application of two cwt. of 

 guano ; and having threshed the seed a short time since (23 bushels 

 per acre), I request to know whether I should prepare the fibre ac- 

 cording to the Trent-side system. * * * I may add, that I am so 

 well pleased with flax as a fallow-crop, that I intend to sow ten acres 

 this year. * * * Linseed is now very dear, being ten shillings per 

 bushel. 



"W. J. Nicholson." 



In an official document, for 1846, taken from the Fifth 

 Annual Report of the Irish Flax Society, Presented by order 

 of Her Majesty," I perceive that the profits upon one acre of 

 flax, English measure, would be 20/., as follows ; — 



