Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-05-13
FLAX AND FLAX-COTToN.

Gov. Farewell OF Wisconsin has writ
ten a lucid and forciblc letter to the State
Agricultural Society, urging the proplle-
ty of far more extensive cultivation of
Flax in that State. Wheat has proved
very uncertain crop there, and some other
staple must be extensively substituted
Gov. Fdrwell shows clearly that the eli
mate and soil OF Wisconsin are admirably
adapted 10 the growth OF Flax; that
S25 per acre would not he large aver
age Weld, while $40 per acre may be
obtained and that the importation and
sale of 10000 bushels of seed at cost
of $1,000 would secure crop worth al
least $250,000 for the present year and
no, less than S5,OO9,000 next year.
Mr.. John Galbraiih, who has grown
Flax in Waukesha County in each of the
four last years, has had three good crops
and one middlng one. During these
four years, we believe there have been
two or three signal failures of the Wheat
crop. An efficient Breaking Machine
is now in operation at Beloit, where Flax
Straw is regularly purchased by the tun,
roiled, dressed, and sent eastward TO
market. And, if the Governors recon-
mendaiion is seconded, there will soon
be similar establishments in nearly every
County, with Oil-MilIs, where Seed may
likewise be sold for cash.
The Flax culture in this country will
be considerably extended this season.-
Hon. Henry l.. Ellsworth, formey U. 5.
Commissioner of Patents, will sow 500
acres this seoson. AS Seed will doubt
less be dear for year or so, il is compu-
ted that $50 per acre may be obtained
from good land well cultivated in the
Eastern States. The labor is hardly
equal to that required to secure an aver
Weld of Indian Corn. Twenty bushels
of Seed have often been grown on al
acre, and this alone will probably b'
worth SIS; while the Straw will range
from IS 10 so per ton, as it shall b'
! further from or nearer TO breaking ma
chnery. Twenty bushels of Seed an'
Two tons of Straw are considered fal
4 yield per acre in England.
Il ONI COilDdilltH Ntt now &hSbECh .
the Manufacture of Linen Thread in thI
Counlry-at Cohoes, n. Y; Whitman
tic. Conn; at Clinton, Mass. and q
Anduver, Mass. The Cohoes Threa
was never excelled in Great Britain no
anywhere else. (There are probabl
others but these we know And com
pany has Just been formed to manuiaC
ture Linen Fabrics at Fall River Mass
with a capital OF 100000. TheI
ought to be thirty such companies organ
, lied and operating forthwith, and if II
Tariff of 1912 were still in force, thel
would be.
5 In England, the business goes on pro
perously. One land owner will SOW :
900 acres of Flax this year. Claussen
, Flax Cotton machinery is evidently gail
ing favor. His works at Stepney, ne
London, are a focus Of public interest
: There the eohonieing process (sPlitliI
a the fax fiber by saturating II first IN
e solution of soda and then IN one of st
It phuric acid) is completed in few mi
d utes, and at a trifling cost. II has pr
IS yiously been stepped, however, in CO
e solution of causiic soda, for some twenl
II four hours.
e In England. Flax Straw costs, as J
some q 10 to $40 per tun, delIvere
is while j, may be prohtably grown in 4
r Country for S. We trust its produ
re ton viii henceiorih be rapidly extend'
mi N. Y. Tribune.