Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-07-16

fer the present; let none pe given o'cr W
the tender mercies of oil-mills. We shall
nood all that is grown this year for sowing
mex: spring, and it is morally certain to
hear a high price even this Fall. The
sa-acious should caution their less watch
fli neighbcrs on this point. l shall be
disappointed if a bushel of Flax-seed be
no. worth two bushels of Wheat in most
parts of our Country next May.
Our ensuing Agricultural Fairs, state
and local, should be improved for the diff
fusion of knowledge and the attainment Of
concert and mutual understanding with
regard to the Flax Culture For the pres
ent, at any rate, few farmers can afford or
will choose to incur the expense Of the
heavy machinery required to break and
roughly dress their fax, SO as to divest it
of four fifths of its bulk and leave the
fiber in state of easy transportation to
the central points at which Flax-Co!ton
machinery may be put in operation. If
the Flax-straw has to be hauled Fifty or
sixty miles over country roads to find
purchaser or breaking machine, the cost of
such transportation will nearly eat up the
proceeds. 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 market
there created for their Flax, its growth
will be greatly extended. And if intclli-
gent, energetic, responsible men will now
turn their thoughts towards the procuring
and setting up Of the best Flax-breaking
machinery (not for fully dressing but
merely for separating the fiber from the
bulk of the woody substance it incloses)
they may proceed to make contracts with
their neighboring farmers for Flax-straw
TO be delivered in the Autumn of next
year on terms highly advantageous to both
parties. The Flax thus roug lilly dressed
may be transported even hundred miles
to market at moderate cost, and there
can be no reasonable doubt of its COM
manding a good price. NJ. Claussen as
sures me that he could now buy and prof.
tably 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.
(His 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 disappointments,
mistakes, unforeseen difficulties, disasters,
in Flax-growing and the consequent fab
rications hereafter as heretofore. do not
presume that every man who now rushes
into Flax will make bis fortune l pre-
sumo many will incur losses. / counsel
and urge the fullest inquiry, the most care.
full calculations, preliminary to any deci-
sive action. But that such inquiry will
lead to very extensive Flax-sowing next
year-to the erection Of Flax breaking
machinery at a thousand points where
none such have ever yet existed-and ul-
tlma.ely 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 business her abundance of
cheap, fertile soil and of cheap seed, the
intelligence of her producers, the general
diffusion of water or steam power, and our
present superiority in Flax-breaking ma
chinery, all point to this result. 1t will
be unfortunate alike for our credit and
our prosperity ii We indolently or needless
ly suffer other nations to take the lead in
it. HORACE GREELY.
2. S. NJ. Claussen has also Circular
Loom in the Exhibition, wherein Bagging,
Hosiery, &c, may be woven without a
seam or anything like one. This loom
may be operated by a very light hand
power, (of course, steam or water is chea-
per- and it does its work rapidly and
faultlessly. mention this only as proof
Of his inventive genius, and to corroborate
the favorable impression he made on me.
| have seen nothing more ingenious in the
immense department devoted to British
Machinery than this loom.
| understand that overtures have been
made to NJ Claussen for the purchase Of
his American patent, hut as yet without
definite result. This, however, is not ma
terial. Whether the patent is sold or
held, there will next year be parties ready
to buy highly dressed Flax to work up
under it, and it is preparation to grow such
Flax that ] am urging. / believe nothing
more important or more auspicious to our
Farming Interests has occurred for years
than this discovery by NJ. Claussen. He
made it in Brazil, while engaged in the