Excerpt from Flax: Its Manufacture, on Schenck's Patent System, With Directions Respecting the Erection and ManagementThe introduction, into this country, of a similar system, would produce the same results. The erection of retteries (steeping establishments), by Opening in their vicinity a market for the ¿ax in its raw state, will Operate in precisely the same manner. Experience has already shewn that, wherever a rettery has been erected, the cultivation Of ¿ax has at once been considerably increased, partly by farmers, who were not in the habit of growing it, partly by men who sowed more than what they intended for their own steeping, with the view of selling the surplus in the raw state.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.