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Title: 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]
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Print source: 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]
Smollett, Tobias George, 1721-1771, tr.
Philadelphia:: Printed, by Robert Bell, next door to St. Paul's Church, in Third-Street, Philadelphia., M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]
Subject terms:
Flax.
Industrial arts.
Linen.
Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N12358.0001.001
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THE PREFACE.
CONTENTS OF THIS PAMPHLET.
At BELL's Book-Store, next Door to St. Paul's-Church, in Third-Street, Phila|delphia, may be had, lately Published:
MEMOIR CONCERNING THE CULTIVATION OF FLAX.
THE MANNER OF RAISING AND DRESSING FLAX, AND HEMP.
Of the choice of the SOIL, and preparing the GROUND for FLAX.
Of the choice of LINTSEED.
Of sowing LINTSEED.
Of Weeding FLAX.
Of Pulling FLAX.
Of stacking up FLAX during the winter, and Winnowing the Seed.
Of Rippling FLAX.
Of Watering FLAX.
Of grassing FLAX.
Of keeping FLAX after it is grassed.
For Cambrick and fine Lawn.
THE MANNER OF DRESSING FLAX. The different methods of that operation.
THE MANNER OF RAISING AND DRESSING HEMP.
An Inquiry concerning the Materials that may be used in making Paper.
OBSERVATIONS on the raising and dressing of HEMP; communicated to the AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, by EDWARD ANTIL, Esquire.
THE METHOD OF BLEACHING LINEN-CLOTH.
STEEPING.
BUCKING AND BOILING.
ALTERNATE WATERING and DRYING.
SOURING.
HAND RUBBING with Soap and Warm Wa|ter, RUBBING-BOARDS, STARCHING and BLUEING.
A METHOD OF BLEACHING SAFELY WITH LIME.
An Account of the NETTLE THREAD invented at LEIPSIC.
OBSERVATIONS upon the MANAGEMENT of CATTLE.
A REMEDY against ROTTENNESS in SHEEP.
Of CABBAGE, RADISHES, TURNIPS, and other such Plants; Methods for preserving them from the ravages of the game, and the insects that feed upon them.
Method of raising RADISHES for SALLAD▪ used by the Rev. Fathers MINIMES of PA•SI.
OF RAISING ASPARAGUS.
At BELL's Book Store in Third Street PHILADELPHIA, may be had: Great variety of new and old Books in the Arts and Sciences; Likewise, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, and French Classics; With History, Divinity, Law, Plays, Novels, and Instructive Entertainment. Among which are,