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Domestic News
March 3, 1790
The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Philadelphia report urges farmers to focus on flax and hemp production due to revived navigation, insufficient domestic supply, rising prices, import duties, and growing demand from linen and sail cloth manufactories in several towns.
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PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11.
Flax and hemp, require the particular attention of the farmers and planters at this time. Our navigation being revived, the hemp made is not sufficient for our wants, and the ropemakers were obliged to use so much flax last year, that it was raised at one time 30 per cent. by their purchasers. A heavy duty is laid upon foreign cordage, and after the first of December next, another heavy duty will take place on foreign hemp. The coarse linen manufactory has become considerable, and affords a constant and great demand for flax. Four sail cloth manufactories are established at Boston, Salem, New-Haven and New-Hampshire, the first of which, it is said, has increased its capital, after making a careful experiment, to ten times the original sum. We have no doubt but that Baltimore, Philadelphia, New-York, and other towns, will very soon establish such factories, as the charges of importing sail cloth are full 25 per cent. upon their first cost in Europe.
Flax and hemp, require the particular attention of the farmers and planters at this time. Our navigation being revived, the hemp made is not sufficient for our wants, and the ropemakers were obliged to use so much flax last year, that it was raised at one time 30 per cent. by their purchasers. A heavy duty is laid upon foreign cordage, and after the first of December next, another heavy duty will take place on foreign hemp. The coarse linen manufactory has become considerable, and affords a constant and great demand for flax. Four sail cloth manufactories are established at Boston, Salem, New-Haven and New-Hampshire, the first of which, it is said, has increased its capital, after making a careful experiment, to ten times the original sum. We have no doubt but that Baltimore, Philadelphia, New-York, and other towns, will very soon establish such factories, as the charges of importing sail cloth are full 25 per cent. upon their first cost in Europe.
What sub-type of article is it?
Agriculture
Economic
What keywords are associated?
Flax
Hemp
Farmers
Import Duties
Linen Manufactory
Sail Cloth Factories
Where did it happen?
Philadelphia
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Philadelphia
Event Date
Feb. 11
Event Details
Urges attention to flax and hemp due to revived navigation, insufficient supply, price increases, import duties on cordage and hemp after December, demand from linen manufactories, and established sail cloth factories in Boston, Salem, New-Haven, New-Hampshire, with expectations for more in other towns due to import costs.