THE FLAX TRADE.
(TO THE EDITOB OF THE TIMES.) Sic, — There are two questions connected with the preparation of flax, which I think are not at present sufficiently considered by those engaged in its exportation. The first is the large quantity of inferior, imperfect, and badly cleaned stuff that some of the flax mills at present turn out, and in which quantity seems to be the chief, if not the only, consideration aimed at. The effect of this cannot but prove injurious to the new export, and may materially check and keep back its purchase in the home market. Could not some method be devised to have the cleaned flax authoritatively sampled and branded, and that according to its quality ? This, at least, would prevent tlie buyers at home from being misled. The second is the great mistake that is at present perpetrated by cutting the leaves in the spring and summer time, when the gum and sap are in them, and the fibre of the leaf itself imperfectly matured and; brittle. Not only is this fact at present totally ignored, but even all sorts of broken and injured leaves are mixed with good ones, and all indiscriminately passed through the mill. — I am, &c, C. D. I. - ■■ ■■ ■■
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Southland Times, Issue 1198, 21 January 1870, Page 3
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208THE FLAX TRADE. Southland Times, Issue 1198, 21 January 1870, Page 3
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