On the cultivation of flax; the fattening of cattle with native produce; box-feeding; and summer-grazing ... / by John Warnes.

  • Warnes, John.
Date:
1847
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the cultivation of flax; the fattening of cattle with native produce; box-feeding; and summer-grazing ... / by John Warnes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    strictly adhered to. Circumstances may have interfered to prevent the full realization of promised benefits. But the great majority of successful instances indisputably prove that all the others might have been equally so if conducted upon the same principles. Now that my publications appear in a collected form, many errors for the future may be avoided. But how- ever simple every process, and clear every description, it is scarcely possible, particularly in the management of flax, for amateurs to succeed without the aid of prac- tical instruction. I have endeavoured to show that county associations, with branches attached, were eminently calculated to disseminate information. I therefore insert the adver- tisements, circulars, and reports of those already formed, for the guidance of parties who may hereafter perceive the desirableness of establishing similar societies. Their insertion may be thought by some irrelevant and con- fusing; as also the controversial portions of my letters, political allusions, &c.; but had I omitted them, the nationality of my undertaking and the independence of my exertions would have been destroyed. My volume is offered as a book of reference, rather than as a connected history. Information will be found indiscriminately distributed. But the Index will remedy any inconvenience on this account, by at once referring the inquirer to the subject of his immediate research. Although the flax-plant was indigenous to this coun- try, and its properties, both as respects fibre and seed, were known from time immemorial, yet its real value remained undiscovered till the invention of the com- pound. Every attempt to fatten cattle upon linseed