This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... stances, such as the quality of the flax itself, the way in which it has been steeped and dried, and even the state of the weather, much damp being unfavourable, as also would too sharp a drought, though the latter inconvenience is rare in Great Britian, and still more so in Ireland. To the scutcher, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... stances, such as the quality of the flax itself, the way in which it has been steeped and dried, and even the state of the weather, much damp being unfavourable, as also would too sharp a drought, though the latter inconvenience is rare in Great Britian, and still more so in Ireland. To the scutcher, who is paid by the weight scutched, and not by the day, it makes a considerable difference in his earnings whether these circumstances are favourable or adverse. Thus, French scutchers, at two pence the kilo (short for kilogramme, and equal to 2-206 English pounds avoirdupois), can earn from eight pence to twenty pence a day, according to their skill and the quality of the flax they have to do with. The niceness of the scutching operation is shown by the fact that its proper performance by machinery has never yet been accomplished. We do not say that it never will be; probably it will, for there is scarcely a limit to the powers of machinery. Hitherto, when flax is scutched by machinery, the two ends only are properly done, the middle remaining imperfectly finished off. In some cases, the loss occasioned by scutching by machinery, instead of by hand, has been as much as twenty-five per cent. Mr. Warnes, to whose praiseworthy attempts wo have a pleasure in referring, says at first, that "we must wait with patience till our labourers have learned the art of using the scutching-mill, before we, or they, can fully reap the benefit;" but he afterwards declares, that having spared neither trouble nor expense in testing the comparative merits of hand and of mill scutching, he finds that the scale is at present in favour of the former. In fact, no foreign flaxman would listen for a moment to the proposition of scutching by machinery. VALUE OF FLAX...
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