Flax
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Eighteenth-century encyclopedia article on flax from the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It gives the Scottish Trustees' recommended practice for growing flax: soil choice, linseed selection, sowing, weeding, pulling, rippling, watering (retting) in canals, grassing and storage. It includes a cost and profit estimate for a Scots acre and a separate method for growing fine flax for cambric and lawn. The closing FLAX-DRESSING section describes breaking, scutching and heckling by hand tools, water-mills and foot machines, illustrated by an engraved plate of the tools.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1771
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 8
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