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Article LXIII. 



On the Culture of Hemp and FlaX* 

 [In a Letter to the Secretary.] 

 Sir, 



J BEG leave to trouble the Gentlemen of the 

 Bath Society with a few remarks on the culture 

 of hemp and flax, as being articles of great nationa 

 importance, and therefore well worthy their at- 

 tention. 



I have often obferved, that the greater part of 

 thofc rich marfhy lands lying to the weft of Men- 

 dip-hills, are as badly managed as any in this 

 county, or perhaps in the kingdom. The far- 

 mers, whofe property it is, feem content with the 

 produce it affords them without much cultivation 

 or labour; and appear to be utter ft rangers to its 

 real value, or the profits that would fpeedily 

 arife from a fpirited and judicious mode of ma- 

 nagement, were it but adopted. Almoft any me- 

 thod of cultivation different from the prefent 

 Would, in point of private advantage, be infi- 

 nitely preferable. But were thefe lands appropri- 

 ated to hemp ahd flax, they would prove highly 



Vol. If. Bb advantageous 



