| Show elx eln GROWING asi AND lisen LINEX WEAVING filhe the cultivation of ilax flax cotton 0 and lul Bil sll hll khas been impressed upon the people of tills this community by our leaders for yead years the success of their culture has been proved beyond question the sett helt lent of our cotton region after years pent rent in laboring u under ader g great reat difficult ies les look forward to an early day ty they have J just reason to do BO so for evidence of the growing importance 1 of a those wow settlements and the principle production of that region t indicates that their prosperity is not far faroul oft silk has been produce din small quantities but sufficient to prove that it only requires attention to make its RA culture successful and paying so it has been avith rith flax and of the latter hitter a little may be said advantageously as it is an tir cle ale that can bo be brought into more general use both for home consumption and for exportation if grown in m sum gum elent quantities and properly handled it is a crop too that will pay it does maywhere pay where it is U cultivated and mid why not here as well as elsewhere 1 perhaps there thene is no other country where iu in the tiie same amount of land hand under cultivation there is its so great a breath of flax sown sis ais i in ili the north of ireland aud and front the raw material linens of the tn niest niost ost buti beautiful dutiful fui ful texture and eme ehe atte finest quality are produced both by 1 hand labar labor and machinery tile tiie theland hand haud ched ham hax brings C a higher price in the tile market than the mill proving 0 its superiority in the eyes of bf practical men wen in tile the trade and that we could moro more welle generally rally raily reach here until the ilee lice emary alach machinery could be procured cured to make tim the quantity larger and the pric prig less rho rhe tho various processes pursued there aro are briefly as follows the land is prepared by plowing as for foi any oiher other crop the eed heed son sawn and lightly za harrowed in then the tiie roller pases basei over pulverizing the ther clods the land laud if naturally wet being thoroughly 0 ule uie when afi the yating young cop eop U nhat abat athrea olree th reo rea or four harti es ili ill ghigli i the roller is again i halil alii alil passed over it laying it flat from which if it arises and seems to take a moro more rapid growth it is pulled as the seed begins to ripen tied in moderate sized bundles and steeped in ploughs sloughs made on purpose or in running water tile the former being preferred with rocks placed on it to keep it down from ten wn to fourteen days will usually rot it it Is lifted when sufficiently rotted which is known by breaking the stalk and spread put to dry when dry it is ready for breaking or beetling 1 I as it is called there ili in some bome places this is done by hand ili in others by horsepower a large stone roller traveling in a circle crushing the stalks and rendering in it ready for the in other places it is done lone by machinery it is then ched and the tiie lint bound in bunches for sale or home spinning tile the common spinning wheel is extensively ten used and much of the yarn that makes the most enduring and most sought after irish linens is thus produced due duc a d now all this is very simple and easl easi easily done true labor is very high here and very low loir there but fake lake the difference ili in price between that linen lill e n or linen equal to it in this market and what it costs costa there and the discrepancy is still greater linen that fetches 30 cens cenes cents a yard in ili the retail market there will cost here at that difference even with hand labor and with only t oie hie lie lle same facilities they have we produce flax manufacture linen to supply ourselves and export create a new branch of industry and source of if wealth and increase the circulating 0 medium of the tho territory while wilile w we e enrich ourselves I 1 I 1 when to this is added the requisite machinery for working flax into lint and fo for other rother purposes connected with the manufacture of linen which can bo be imported we would be in a position not only to fully meet our own wants but to largely supply the demand of neighboring markets we will at any time cheerfully give some hints on the manufacture of linein adrayn hd drawn ravn from a reliable source and we hope to see the counsel given by president young on the subject very verb generally adopted atan at an earl eari early y day 1 |
