New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-06-23

We shall need NJ that Is grown this year Tor sow
,ur next Spring. and II Is morally certain to bear
. k:5h price even this Fall. The sagacious should
cal }ou Aer less watchful neishbors on this
port / shall be dlsapp pointed If a bushei of Flax
SEED be not worth Two bushels Of Wheat IN most
PARTS of our Country next MAY
Our ensuing Agricultural Fairs. STATE and .o-
cal. should be improved for the diffusion OF
knowledge and the attainment OF concert ant
mutual understanding with regard 20 the Flax
Culture For the present, at any rate few
farmer, can afford or WI choose TO incur The
expense Of tie heavy machinery required to
break and roughly dress their flax. 50 as to de
vest t Of lour-ffths of its bulk and leave the fiber
in state for easy transportation 70 the central
points at which Fiax-Cotton machinery may be
put IN operation. II the Flax-,iraw has to he
hauled fifty or sixty miles over country roads 10
ind purchaser or breaking machine, the cost OF
such TRANSPORTATION VIII nearly eat up the pro-
ceeds If the farmers OF any township can be
assured beforehand that suitable machinery Will
next Summer be put up within few miles OF
them. and 4 market there created for their FLAX
lis growth will be greatly extended And ID m
telhcent energetic, responsible men will now
turn their thoughts toward the procuring and
setting up OF the best Flax-breakng machinery
mot for fully dressing but merely for separating
the fiber from the bulk OF the woody substance It
mcloses) they may proceed TO make contracts
with their neighborlng farmers for Flax-straw to
be delivered in the Autumn of next year on terms
highly advantageous to both parties. The Flax
thus roughly dressed may be transported even
hundred miles TO market at moderate cost, and
there can be no reasonable doubt of It's command
ing good price. VI Claussen assures me that
he could now buy and prOhtaby use almost any
quantity of such Flax if it were to be had. The
only reason Che says why there are not now any
number of spindles and looms running on Flax
Cotton IS the want of the raw material (HlS
patent Is hardly yet three months old) Taking
dressed and hetcheled Flax, worth seven to nine
cents per pound, and transforming It into Flax
Cotton while Cotton Is no higher than at present,
would not pay
OF course, there Will be disappointmeniS mis-
takes. unforeseen difficulties disasters. IN Flax
growing and the consequent fabrIcatOnS hereat-
ter as heretofore | do not presume that every
man who now PUSHES into Flax Will make his
fortune | presume many Will incur losses.
counsel and urge the fullest inquiry the most
careful calculations, preliminary 10 any decisive
action But that such inquiry will lead to very
extensive Flax-sowIng next year,-to the erec-
ton Of Flax-breakmg machinery at a thousand
points where none such have ever yet existed
and ultimately to the firm establishment OF new
and most important branches of industry, ! can
not doubt Our own country Is better situated
than any other to take the lead IN the Flax-buSl-
ness her abundanc of cheap, fertile soil and oil
cheap seed. the Intelligence OF her producers, the
general diffusion of water or steam power, and
our present superiority in Flax-breaking machine
~. all point to this result It Will be unfortunate
alike for our credit and our prosperity II we IN
doently or heedlessly suffer other nations to take
the lead in IL H. G.
u. S.-M Claussen has also a Circular Loom
W,the. Exhibition, wRsglP BaGRp6t dHiS} 5 Ssi3s
like one. This loom may be operated by a very
! light hand power, cot course, steam or water Is
cheaper.) and it does IT'S w4rS rapidly and fault
lessly | mention this onA as proof of his IN
yeatiye genius, and to corroborate the favorable
IMPRESSION ne IldNt Oh NE. nave nttu uOiuiS
more ingenious in the immense department de-
voted TO British Machinery than tins loom
understand that overturcs have been made
to NJ Causscn for the purchase of his American
patent, but as yet without definite result This,
however. Is not material Whether the patent
IS sold or held. there will next year be parties
ready to buy roughly dressed Flax to work up
under 1t, and 1t is preparation TO grow such Flax
that am urging | believe nothing more I'm.
poran or more ausplclous TO our Farming In
terest has occurred for years than this discovery
by NJ Claussen He made II In Brazil, while
engaged IN tie growth OF Cotton. 1t viii super
sede Cotton, but It Will render It no longer Ill
dispensabe by providing a substitute equally
cheap, equally serceable and which may be
grown almost every where. This cannot be re-
allied too soon. q.
IL. H.