The Flax Industry: Its Importance and Progress: Also Its Cultivation and Management, and Instructions in the Various Belgian Methods of Growing and Preparing it for Market; with Extracts from the Annual Report of the Royal Irish Flax Society, and a Word on Chevalier Claussen's Invention of Cottonizing Flax |
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acres of flax agricultural agriculturist Arthur Marshall Belfast Belgian Belgium bleached BLUE SYSTEM bolls branch Brussels lace bundles bushels cambric Carrots Claussen Clover coarse colour committee cotton Courtrai system cultivation of flax Deman district England expense experience farmer favour feet flax culture flax fibre flax grown flax industry flax-cotton flax-crop flax-growers flax-plant flax-seed flax-straw French Flanders give grass green grow flax grower growth of flax hand hear importance improvements inches invention Ireland labour land linen manufacture Linum usitatissimum machinery manure ment mode neighbourhood Oats Patrington plant ploughing preparation produce profit pulled quality of flax quantity rettery retting Riga rippled root end rotation of crops Royal Flax Society Rye and Turnips Schenck's system scutching season seed Sir James Graham sowing sown spread stacking straw sufficiently steeped superior taken tons Tying-up United Kingdom weather weeds West Flanders wheat
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Page 128 - And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty. And so...
Page 65 - Britain with little labour, and that, too, upon soils where hardly anything else will grow. The accomplishment of an object so truly desirable as that of the extended cultivation of Flax, would be attended with the most salutary effects, by affording employment for an increased population, and materially lessening our dependence upon foreign countries...
Page 149 - ... are ready to receive the flax just pulled, the handfuls being placed diagonally, and bound up in a sheaf. The sheaf is laid down at the right hand of the rippler, and untied. He takes a handful with one hand, about six inches from the root, and a little nearer the top with the other. He...
Page 137 - After sowing, cover it with a seed harrow, going twice over it— once up and down, and once across or anglewise ; as this makes it more equally spread, and avoids the small drills made by the teeth of the harrow. Finish with the roller, which will leave the seed covered about an inch — the proper depth. The ridges should be very little raised in the centre, when the ground is ready for the seed, otherwise the crop will not ripen evenly ; and, when land is properly drained, there should be no ridges....
Page 150 - In fine seasons, the bolls should always be dried in the open air, the seed thrashed out, and the heaviest and plumpest used for sowing or crushing. The light seeds and chaff form most wholesome and nutritious feeding for cattle. Flax ought not to be allowed to stand in the field, if possible, even the second day; it should be rippled as soon as pulled, and carried to the water as soon as possible, that it may not harden.
Page 158 - ... and it appears by the parliamentary returns up to the 5th of January, 1844, that this sum drawn by our continental friends is very little short of the whole value of manufactured cotton goods exported by us to all parts of the globe, 16,249,268/.
Page 150 - If the weather be dry, the bolls should be kept in the field, spread on winnow-cloths, or other contrivance for drying, and, if turned from time to time, they will win. Passing the bolls first through a coarse riddle, and afterwards through fanners, to remove straws and leaves, will facilitate the drying. If the weather be...
Page 60 - It has been said that Flax is a very exhausting crop, but it certainly is not more so than any of the usual green crops, neither does it require a very rich soil ; indeed, a rich or highly manured soil is injurious, causing the plant to grow too strong and luxuriant, and rendering the fibre coarse and less valuable. " Flax is grown on light land in Belgium and Holland, and I have seen it growing on mere bog in Ireland.
Page 148 - Let the handfuls of pulled flax be laid across each other diagonally, to be ready for the RIPPLING, Which shoul'd be carried on at the same time, and in the same field, with the pulling. If the only advantage to be derived from rippling was the comparative ease with which rippled flax is handled, the practice ought always to be adopted ; but, besides this, the seed is a most valuable part of the crop, being worth, if sold for the oil mill, £3 per acre, and if used for feeding stock of all kinds,...
Page 60 - If the construction of the plant be closely examined, it will be found that those portions of it which absorb the alkalies and the nutritive properties of the soil, are those which are not required for the purpose of manufacture, viz., the woody part of the plant, the resinous matter, and the seed. The capsules of the seeds, the...