The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-01-16

iolss ana part OF the year 1873, he resided
at kathbone-place, in the city of London, and
worked at No. 422, Oxford-street, London
part of the time aforesaid, he was employ
ed in making the breaker and rubber of Hal
and Bundy's fax machine. That in the year
1919, he left England and went to Che city of
,Hhlladelphia in the State of Pennsylvania.
That IN the month Of October last, he came
to the city OF New-York, and has been en-
ployed under the direction of James Macdon-
aid, IN finishing hemp and fax dressing ma
chine for Anthony Dey. That having made
many OF Hill and Bundy's machines, he is en-
Soied 70 say that the one constructed by Mr..
Macdonald for Mr.. Dey, is totally unlike Hin
ana .bundy's, having nothing about it at all
like those OF Hill and Bundy: and as far as
ne knows, or believes, it is unlike, in every
particular, any machine he ever saw or heard
of for breaking and cleaning hemp or fax.n
(Signed) WILLIAM WRIGHT.
Mr.. Macdonald is native American, and
IN justice to him, ought to say, that he pos
sesses first rate talents as civil engineer. He
IS the inventor of several machines, which, in
POINT OF mechanism, are considered by men
OF skill and Judgment, of the first ordcr-yet,
his talents have hitherto been buried. hope,
however, that this last effort Of his genius,
tne hemp and fax machine, may bring hun
into notice, and that he may yet produse
many things Of importance to his country.
After several experiments, produced the
sample OF fax now send you. When my pa.
tent right to this discovery is secured, / will
then disclose the process. Suffice it to say
at present, that the material, with which it is
accomplished, is not only cheap, but in every
farmers house in abundance, and will in no
degree, | think, injure the quality of the
fibre and while Hill and Bundy's FAX cost
them Cd. sterling per pound, equal to about
II cents OF our money, to clean and bleach,
! am satisfied, from the experiments have
made, that cleaning in the machine, and
bleaching by my process, can be done for a..
bout two cents pound.
1t remains for me to shew, that it is proffa-
Die to raise flax. know AN opinion prevails
that flax is an exhausting crop, and that two
crops cannot be raised in successi3n--but
have never yet met with an individual, who
says he has tried it. OF the same 60 acres
which cultivated this year in flax, contem-
plate to put apart again in fax the next
season, and then seed it down with grass seed,
and the residue, with about forty additional
acres in hemp. ! shall be able then to test
the principle. do not believe, that upon
such strong soils as our reclaimed marshes,
we can exhaust the soil, or any principle or
peculiarly in it, by the same kind of crop in
two or three successive years, ultere those
crops are NOT permitted TO 60 TO seed.
Buckwheat is considered a great scourge,
when it is permitted to go to seed; but buck
wheat is sown for manure, and when in bios
som, ploughed under. II ns.t, therefore,
think, be The seed which exhausts that princi-
pie or peculiarly in the soil which requires
change before the crop is renewed.
Admitting, however, that am wrong, yet
there is hardly any farmer, that cannot pre-
pare and set apart 10 acres out of his arm
annually for fax. This land should be put
IN good condition, for unless it is, it ought not
to be sown g'ith flax; and if in good condi-
ton will yield, think, beyond doubt, one
and an half tons OF plant or stem TO the acre.
The English calculate three tons to the acre !;
but can only say think this is incorrect.
There is market at Patterson, in New
Jersey, to make sail-cloth, and in our cities,
for more flax 10 make cordage, than will be
raised these five years IN our country, after re-
tanning what is required among the farmers for
family purposes.
Suppose, then, farmer raises 10 acres of flax
at one and an hall tons of plant to the acre.
The owner of one OF the fax and hemp ma.
chimes can afford, when fax brings 10 cents a
pound, to give Is dollars a ton. } hen 10 tons,
the produce of 10 acres, at Is dollars per ton,
is 1925,
Deduct.
At the same rate which paid in,
cash for like services, but
which is done by the farmer,
and, therefore, saved to him,
viz -
Ploughing, sowing and harrow.
ing 10 acres, So $50
90 bushels of clean seed
so %
Pulling and spreading, SO 80
Drying, bundlipg and carting)
to the barn or the machine, Is los