Barker, A. F. (Aldred Farrer), b. 1868, Gardner, Walter Myers, 1862- [from old catalog], Snow, R. [from old catalog], Cook, William Hall. [from old catalog], Bradbury, Fred. [from old catalog] · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 386
lbs.of scutched flax, 30 lbs of re-scutched tow. (3) A farmer in Ireland in 1919 sowed 2 bushels of flax seed,from which he secured 47 stones of scutched flax, which wasgraded by the Government graders as No. 2 quality. (4) The average pre-war return in Ireland was approxi-mately 30 stones per… … 366 TEXTILES and also centralised the work in mills and factories. Thespinning of flax by machinery was attempted in GreatBritain fully a decade previous to any similar experimentin Ireland, notwithstanding that the latter country hadacquired a considerable reputation for flax spinning. At
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