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Select essays : containing: The manner of raising and dressing flax, and hemp. : Also, the whole method of bleaching or whitening linen-cloth. : Likewise, observations on the management of cows and sheep. : The manner of raising radishes, turnips, cabbage, and other such plants. : And an enquiry, concerning the materials that may be used in making paper. : With, valuable dissertations on other useful subjects. /

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Other Authors:	Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771 (Translator)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 15597.
Subjects:	Flax. Industrial arts. Linen. Booksellers' advertisements > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Online Access:	Evans Digital Edition

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Select essays : containing the manner of raising and dressing flax, and hemp : also, the whole method of bleaching or whitening linen-cloth : likewise, observations on the management of cows and sheep : the manner of raising radishes, turnips, cabbage, and other such plants, and an enquiry, concerning the materials that may be used in making paper : with valuable dissertations on other useful subjects /

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Select essays : containing: The manner of raising and dressing flax, and hemp. Also, the whole method of bleaching or whitening linen-cloth. Likewise, observations on the management of cows and sheep. The manner of raising radishes, turnips, cabbage, and other such plants. And an enquiry, concerning the materials that may be used in making paper. With, valuable dissertations on other useful subjects. Collected from the Dictionary of arts and sciences, and from various modern authors. [One line in Latin from Virgil, with one line translation].

Report of an inquiry into the mode of cultivating and treating flax, in the Netherlands, &c. &c. &c /
by: Besnard, Peter
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Flax and its products in Ireland /
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Published: (1862)

Observations on the promoting the cultivation of hemp and flax : and extending the linen and hempen manufactures in the South of Ireland /
by: Besnard, Peter
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Minutes of the trustees of the linen and hempen manufactures of Ireland : containing the reports of their secretary, on a tour of inspection through the province of Ulster, in October, November, and December, 1816.
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The advantages which may arise to the people of Ireland by raising of flax and flax-seed, considered : together with instructions for sowing and saving the seed, and preparing the flax for the market /
by: Prior, Thomas, 1681-1751
Published: (1732)

Minutes of the trustees of the linen and hempen manufactures of Ireland : containing the report of a tour of inspection through the provinces of Leinster, Munster & Connaught, by Mr. Peter Besnard, Inspector General of those provinces, in January, February, March, April, May, June, September and October, 1817.
Published: (1817)

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by: Halle, Johann Samuel, 1727-1810
Published: (1788)

An essay to encourage and extend the linen-manufacture in Ireland : by praemiums and other means /
by: Prior, Thomas, 1681-1751
Published: (1749)

Gründliche und umfassende Abhandlung über Leinbau und Flachsveredlung : nach den neuesten theoretischen, und praktischen Grundsätzen der rationelen Landwirthschaft : mit dem Nöthigsten über Feinspinnerey und Bleichen der Leinwaaren : dann den ausgebreiteten Flachs- Leinsaamen- und Leinwaaren-Handel in Europa, &c. : für Baiern vorzüglich neidergeschrieben /
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Published: (1823)

Les Commissaires délégués par les fabricans de toiles et cultivateurs de lins des Départemens de l'Eure, de l'Orne et du Calvados, a messieurs les membres composant la Chambre des députés.
Published: (1824)

Report from the Linen Committee /
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Minutes of the trustees of the Linen and Hempen Manufacturers of Ireland : respecting the proposed repeal of the transit-duties on foreign linens.
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by: Durie, Alastair J.
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A letter from Sir Richard Cox, bart. to Thomas Prior, Esq : shewing, from experience, a sure method to establish the linen-manufacture, and the beneficial effects it will immediately produce.
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A Great number of the nobility and gentry having come to a resolution to encourage the wearing of home made linnen cloth, the Honourable Society for Improving in the Knowledge of Agriculture have advised the publishing of the following rules for propagating and dressing of lint and hemp, and for bleaching and whitning of linnen cloth.
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Instructions for the cultivating and raising of flax and hemp : in a better manner, than that generally practis'd in Ireland. /
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The Flax-husbandman and flax-dresser instructed, or, The best methods of flax-husbandry and flax-dressing explained : in several letters /

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by: Wilson, Kathleen Curtis
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by: Foere, L. de (Léon), 1787-1851
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An essay upon raising and dressing of flax and hemp, and winning their seeds, &c : in all its branches, parts, operations, and stages ... /
by: M'Donald, A. (Surveyor)

A treatise on the better employment, and more comfortable support, of the poor in workhouses : together with some observations on the growth and culture of flax : with divers new inventions, neatly engraved on copper, for the improvement of the linen manufacture, of which the importance and advantages are considered and evinced /
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A new method of raising flax : by which it is proved, that Ireland may raise annually many thousand pounds worth more flax from the usual quantity of land, and from one fourth less seed than by the common method : with tables, shewing what quantity of seed will sow any lot or quantity of ground : the whole containing many useful and curious remarks on that valuable plant, never before made publick /
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by: MacAdam, James, 1801-1861
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