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neracy v., to be apprehended from the proximity of 

 other fruit-trees; as the admirable difpofition of the 

 receptacle to its farina, denies every urigenerical 

 impregnation." 



Norwich, JOHN WAGSTAFFE. 



Nov. 9, 1787. 



Article XXVI. 

 On the Cultivation of Flax and Hemp. 



SIR, JFifiub.Julyii, 17S4. 



fN anfwer to your letter, I have applied to a 

 A friend of mine who has had many years' expe- 

 rience in cultivating both Flax and Hemp j and he 

 informs me as follows, viz. 



ift. The ufual price of flax- feed is 2I. 2s. per 

 coomb j the quantity fown is two bufhels per acre. 



idly. As to manure, there is none laid upon land 

 where you intend to fow flax j but it mull be ci 



or fward land. 



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3dly. If the land be fward land, or what we call 

 grafs land, it mult be ploughed but once, and har- 

 rowed fine. As to mf rich land, it will bring tur- 

 nips, wheat, or clover, &c. after the flax is off. 



S 2 4thly. The 



