Books for the Country Price One Shilling

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Excerpt from Books for the Country Price One Shilling: Flax and Hemp, Their Culture and Manipulation Vix Ea Nostra voco, "They hardly belong to us, is a motto doubly applicable to the book now in the readers hand. In the first place, its subject, Elax and Hemp, in consequence of gradual neglect, can scarcely be admitted, except by courtesy, to enter the list of English agricultural produce. When they do appear upon the land, they are looked upon as. curiosities rather than as crops. And secondly, its matter, derived from various sources of information, from practical men as well as from theoretical treatises, is therefore not to be claimed by the writer as the virgin produce of his own creation. He acts the part of a sober historian, in only pretending to relate and arrange existing facts and authorities, rather than that of a speculative politician, who imagines new events and combinations. Still, almost all the details described have been repeatedly performed before his eyes, while those with which he is less familiar have been verified by consulting competent persons. The implements for the preparation of flax, as here described and figured, are probably published for the first time. Of their utility, no more need be said than that they are the only ones which a good Trench workman will look at, and that they differ widely from those known at home. That flax and hemp are not our own, is a deficiency in our yearly harvest, which is even less lamentable than to to be wondered at. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.