APPENDIX No, V.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3960, 2 May 1870, Page 6

APPENDIX No, Y.

TffE KOUTIME OF PoWNALL AT\ T D Co.'s FaCTOM. The raw Flax is run from the Wharf by fcr.au over weighbridge, and placed on end in pound. The leaf is then split, by commencing at the point, and parsing each li/ilf by a piece of iron fixed on the edge of a rail, scraping off the unfixed gmn, which drops into a receptacle. The split Flax is passed through side of building handy for each machine. After passing through the machine it goes directly to the wires to diy. "When dry, or nearly comparatively to hot air drying, it is placed in heap under a shed for about -three -weeks to mellow. The points <. scaping un cleaned from machiaoaro then hackled, divided into qualities, and baled /^though so little labour is expended, the Flax: from this mill is softer than the produce or any other mill I hav.o compared it with. The scutching machine would greatly improve the appeal anee. But this mill was started when prices ruled low, and the owners believed it was waste of time to do more, as the scul and. dust would sopara'e in the unavoidable operation it must go through at homo in manufacture But at the present prices they intend to go in for colour, softness, and gloss. The principle on which the machines act is, to scrape the leaf on both sides, not beat it on the lower feed roller The machine has two scraping rollers, fifteen inches diameter, with scraping knives projecting, similar to Price's and others, but placed pa-allcl to the axis of the roller. The surface of the rollers between each scrapor become* alternately tho bed for scraping oh.