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Leaving for the Colonist £44 per ton, or 5s.6d. per stone.
The question in this case is simple—Whether land, rent free, unencumbered with poor rates, tythes, and taxes, cannot be cultivated for the produce of flax to much greater advantage than the difference between 7s. and 5s. 6d. per stone? Any person will answer that the cost will be more considerably reduced, and certain and early returns may be relied upon.
It is unnecessary to trouble ourselves with speculations upon the cost of flax in Russia, Poland, Holland or elsewhere; we have here a data that cannot deceive the Adventurer.[1]
- ↑ Hemp and flax are well adapted for new settlements; they require extent of land, without the necessity of a great population. The labour required is not great; but attention is requisite when the article is ready to be cut, gathered, and prepared, to be cleared from the stem or pith. The process is simple, and easily acquired a knowledge of; and, if thought desirable, a few labourers from countries where these articles are brought to the greatest perfection, may be obtained at an expence very little beyond the supply of food and clothing.
