New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-18
Flax sad Flxx-Cetssu.

Gov. FARwKLL Of Wisconsin has wit
ten lucid and forcible letter to the State Asti-
cultural Society. urging abe proprietY Of far
more extensive cultivation Of FLAX in that
State. Wheat has proved very uncertain
crop there, and some other staple must be on.
tensiyely substituted. Gov. Farwell shows
clearly that the climate and soil OF Wisconsin
are admirably adapted 10 the growth Of riar.
that S25 per acre would not be large average
yield, while $40 per acre may be obtained and
that the Importation and sale of 10000 bushs.s
of seed at a cost of $4,000 would secure a
crop worth at least se5OO0O for the present
year and not less than $4,000, 900 next year
Mr.. John Galbrai,h, who has grown Flsx IN
Wsukesha County in each Of the four last
years, has had three good crops and one mid
ding one. During those four years, we be.
licve there have been two or three signal fail.
ures of the Wheat cropl An efficient Break.
ing Machine is now in operation at Beloa,
where Flax Straw is regularly purchases BY he
tun, rotted, dressed, and sent eastward TO mar
ket. And, if the Governors recommendation
is seconded, there will soon be similar establish.
ments in nearly every County, with Oil-MiIls.
where Seed may likewise be sold for cash.
The Flax culture in this country will be COO
siderably extended this season. Hon. Henry /.
Ellsworth, formerly Z. S. Commissioner Of
Patents, will SOW 500 acres this season. AZ
Seed will doubtless be dear for year or so, tis
computed that $40 per acre may be obtained
from good land well cultivated in the Eastern
Statas The lahoy hall aouat tn that -.
quired to secure an average yield Of Indian Corn.
Twenty bushels of Seed have often been grown
on an acre, and this alone will probably DO
worth S25; while the Straw will range from
SIS to $40 per tun, as it shall be further from or
nearer to breaking machinery. Twenty bushels
of Seed and two tuns Of Straw are considered
a fair yield per acre in England
Four companies are now engaged in the
Manufacture of Linen Thread in this Country-
at Cohoes, N. Y; Willimantic, Conn. at Ian
caster, Mass; and at Andover, Mass. The
Cohoes Thread was never exceIled in Great
Britain nor anywhere else. (Thers are proba-
bly, others; bat these we know And a com
pany has just been formed 10 manufacture Liaea
Fabrics at Fall River, Mass, with capital Of
100000. There ought tc be thirty such CON.
panies organized and operating forthwith. and Il
the Tariff OF 1912 were still In force, there
would be.
In England, the business goes on prosperously.
One landowner will SOW 1900 acres OF Flag
this year. Ciaussen's Flax. Cotton machinery Il
evidently gaining favor His works at Stspssy,
near London, are focus Of public Interest,"
There the eoffon'zing process (spltting the Flag
hber by satuTating II lrst Ia a solution OF soda
and then in one Of sulphuric scid) 10 corapistsd
in few minutes, and at a trlfing cost. IL hAs
previously been stepped, however, in cold sslu.
ton OF caustic soda, for some twe1ty.four hoass.
In England, Flax Straw costs, as yet, sems
SIS to $50 per tun, delivered, while 1t may DO
proftably grown in this Country for S. We
trust its production will henceforth be rapidly
extended