New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-10
Flax Cotton,

A Parliamentary paper recently frinteu
contains further report from Sir Robert Co..
Director of the Museum OF Irish Industry, Un "a 49,
sens invention TOR the producucn OF fmn 0~nH
From This n appears that In August last Mr. Dsfssu
having offered full facilities al ms W." nv AZ - 80
for the preparation of Flax Cotton on Isl ,st,
professor, Murphy and Hodges, under instruction.
t,o SIR Robert proceeded TO the spot 10 inspect tn
course of operations 1t WAS however then oscoveeo
h Mr. Graves M Clsussep agent and repressntanTc)
thar from the want Of complete machinery postpone
o, would be necessary. The l9,h OF September vas
accordingly appointed when instead OF toe process oeos
carried out the great manuiacturlng scaIe afsl ah
nounced 1t limited, TO about lOO 10. OF llaA-a
quantity" the Professors observe with the Sc
lact,on of which We did not deem II proper
10 interfere but which must be regarded rs
unneces.arily indeed em5arrassingly, large Il for q
purely scientific object and yet too small to a"" %
absolute conclusions as to us commercial value ever
were the results obtained with perfectly sa.s actory
Such result however It is stated were not arrived at
Experiments were made Of two kinds. Inc hrst was
ss 10 the direct preparation Of fsX-coiton from haX-
straw 10 which the separation and cleansing OF the
fibre from the refuse part OF the stalk was made part
of the process aud this was net by any means sAts
fac,oriy done The second was es 10 the conversion
of tow or low.priced flax into fax cotton and, al
though in this material the fibre has been already pre-
pared and cleaned by the previous dressings the pro-
duct obtained did not approach IN hneness OF text
ure uniformity of structure, or ceanncss oil mass
10 the quality Of the specimens OF faXcotton that
are Usually exhibited by ~ Csussens agents. Under
these circumstances, Sir Robert Name coDsleers tho
trials "tO been In SO lar ncgdlVc as agents
acting for 3D. Caussen found 1t impossible 10 produce
satisfactory results Ia those works which they had them
selves selected and where they had been working pre-
you.ly" AT the same time, II s admitted, that much
weight must be conceded to Mr. Grsyess complaint O
the detective In winding his
report after mentioning incidentally that when the trials
had been concluded and found unsatisfactory, letter
was received from NJ ClausseR declining to be respon-
sble for the results snd stating that he would prefer
that The inquiry should be conducted az some works he
had erected al Stepney green near London Sir Robert
Kane observes
In regard to the more purely sciensic portion OF
the inquiry beg leave TO report that several interest
ing facts Fave been already ascersned to the real
nature of the material PRODUCED sad TO the true
ton of the materials used. Without being understood
TO announce positive conclusion, which In report of
progress would be premature, beg to state that sn
pretty well satisfied that H. Csu.sens process does
at all produce material approaching iR structure
gsnic quality TO Gotten. The views Of the bursting up
Of the ibrcs put forward by some persons who have
come forward ~ eXpai1 the process In public do no.
appear to be well founded The fax hores are IN NJ.
Csussens process excessively finely divided add scpa
rated from each other but each remains st thorough
and complete fax FIBRE and quite unlike cotton and The
same Of DIVISION and the same fneness aud oil.
ability of fibre may be given aud often is ggeG fax
BIZ simple dressing, especially II the flax had been
rotted.
"This point TO structural character is however so
fundamental the value and quality Of the ax.cOttou
that deem it ndispenss5leto follow still fucher the
careful microscopic examination Of the material in all
It's stages ard shall therefore reEerye fox future
plete report details aud drawings
Regarding the other processes Of flax management
(Scht nks &C. beg to state that We have as yet made
but preliminary investigations, as the peculiar Ia
tere6t OF the fax cotton question demanded That our rs
attention should be given to lie discussion.
81 hope 10 be able very soon 10 report concusivoy
as to this branch OF the inyesdg alton"