220 Cultivation of Arable Land. Hemp Produce and Expences of. 



The produce of hemp crops is extremely variable and uncertain. In Suffolk 

 it fometimes rifes to forty-five and fifty, or even more, flones on the acre; but in 

 other cafes it does not much exceed half thefe quantities. The average of crops 

 of this fort, when made ready for the heckle, is dated by a late writer to be from 

 hirty-eight to forty ftones of fourteen pounds each. The price is generally from 

 about fevcn (hillings and fix pence to eight or nine millings the (tone, exclufive 

 of the bounty allowed by government, which often amounts to fifteen or twenty 

 (hillings the acre more.* When fold on the ground as the crop (lands, it generally 

 fetches in Suffolk about one milling the rod, or eight pounds the acre. 



In cafes where the hemp (lands for feed, the moft common proportion is from 

 about eleven to twelve bumels on the acre, the price being from four or five to fix 

 fhillings the bufhel. 



The expences of cultivating and managing the different operations in crops of 

 the hemp kind, from their requiring the bed forts of foil, much manure, and great 

 attention and trouble, muft of neceffity be confiderable. From the fiatements of 

 the able writer of the Survey of the County of Suffolk, they however appear 

 highly beneficial to the cultivator. They arc as below ;f but it is obvious that 

 they mud be liable to vary greatly according to circumftances. 



* Modern Agriculture, vol. III. 

 t At Hoxne the expences and profit were found to ftand thus : 



EXPENCES. . s. d. 



Rent, ty the, and rates - - 1 10 



Manure, 25 load*, at Is. 6d. - - 1176. 



Three earths, at 4d. harrowing included - 12 



Seed ... o 16 6 



Sowing - -- .. . 006 



Pulling - 12 10 



Watering - - - -0120 



Grading - - 10 



Breaking - - - -2 12 6 



Carriage and delivery - *f 



. 9 8 10 



PRODUCE. 



Forty-five ftone, at 7s. 6d. - . l6 17 6 



Expences - - - 9 * 1O 



Profit ~ - - . 7 8 8 



