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America is our best customer for linen. vibram five fingers Thirtynine millions of people in the States consume annually more than two yards each to the value of Is. 3Jd. sterling, Canada takes to the value of Is. 6$d. per head; while Europe, with a population of 228 millions, takes only l-38th of a yard each. vibram fivefingers The difference between the demand from the New World and the Old arises from two causes—the first is the pertinacity with which high duties on imported linen are maintained in most of the countries of Europe; the second is the preference for cotton garments which prevails in Asia and Africa.Besides the extensive and continually increasing quantities of flax fibre which we receive from other countries, we import annually 650,000 quarters of linseed and 70,000 tons of oilcake. five fingers shoes As one of the first commercial effects of the war, our flax mills are running short time for want of flax; and in addition to the loss which our farmers will sustain from a diminished supply and an increased price of guano, they will soon suffer from a deficiency of oilcake. These difficulties must be overcome by an increased growth of flax, and the consumption by cattle on the land of the linseed grown upon it.The flax culture, as practised before the revolution which spinning machinery effected in the linen trade, was a- domestic manufacture. vibram five fingers shoes The grower prepared the fibre for market. In many cases he spun it and wove it at home. In Ireland, the linen trade combined with other causes to produce that excessive subdivision of land which has been the bane of that country. vibram five fingers sale The Irish farmer, in the most flourishing districts, was merely a weaver, holding land enough to raise his own food and raw material. The linen trade, thus conducted, has deserted those districts, and left them burthened with the subdivided farms and a pauper tenantry, till the potato rot, and the emigration which has followed in its train, produced another social revolution.This error, which has been handed down, without investigation, from the times of Virgil and the Georgics, has long entrenched itself among the musty leases and precedents of the lawyer class of land-agents; arid we have of late witnessed the anomaly that, during a period of low prices, landlords, in after-dinner lectures at agricultural meetings, in forgetfulness of this, were recommending their tenants to cultivate flax as a substitute for cheap wheat, while the leases under which those tenants held their farms prohibited the growth of flax, hemp, weld, and woad. Science and practice, amidst all their jarrings and jealousies, are now agreed in repudiating this vulgar error. The chemist led the way by analyzing the plant, vibram five fingers kso and showing that the fibre, which is all that need be removed from the land, contains scarcely any matter but what it has derived from the atmosphere, and that the inorganic constituents, which are furnished by the soil, reside in the seed, the woody refuse, and the steep water, all of which may be returned to the land.In confirmation of these views, practical men who have grown flax for many years, consuming the seed as cattle food instead of purchased oilcake, declare that they find flax anything but an impoverishing crop. The late Mr. Milburn, than whom we knew no higher practical authority, urged this roint at a meetinglately held in Leeds, at the instance of the Leeds and Yorkshire Flax Society, for the purpose of giving explanations to landlords, farmers, manufacturers, and others interested in the growth of flax, as to the present prospects of demand and remuneration, and the best methods of growing flax. At this meeting, a report of which lately appeared in our columns, Mr. Milburn declared the opinion to be gaining ground among all who understand farming operations, that the consumption of the seed by stock upon the farm forms one of the best modes for the improvement of strong land. As an example, he appealed to the practice of Mr. Hutton, of Sowber Hill, who grows flaj for the sake of the linseed as cattle food;