Cultivation of Arabic Land. Hops Expenc&of. S47 



yrtar, or n*;ich longer in fomc cafes, fliould be taken up, and another portion 

 of ground frefh planted ; or, what is better, a fuitable proportion of the old 

 plantation, and an equal portion of new, broken up and planted annually, or 

 every other year, fo as to preferve a regular fucceflion, at an eafy and gradual 

 expenfe, as has been already obferved. 



There is fcarcely any fort of crop that varies more in the quantity of pro 

 duce than that of hops, affording, under different circumftances of foil and feafon 

 from two hundred to upwards of twenty hundred weight on the acre. On me 

 dium foils, in tolerably favourable years, it may be eftimated at from fix to eight: 

 or nine hundred weight, from ten to fourteen being confidered as good crops. A 

 produce of twenty hundred weight but rarely occurs, and is much too large for 

 the planter in general to fix his expectations upon. 



The whole of the expenfes incurred in the cultivation of thefe crops, and the 

 profits which they afford, are flated in the following manner by Mr. Kent, in his 

 ufeful Hints to Gentlemen Farmers :* 



* Expences per Acre. . $. d. 



Medium price of an acre of land fuitable for hops - 1 10 



Digging the ground - - 13 



Drefling and pruning - - -080 



Poling - la O 



Three hoeings - - - 9 



Once moulding - - . o 3 6 



Tying the binds to the poles - - - - 12 



Stripping the binds off the poles - - - 3 



Stacking the poles . *&amp;gt; &amp;gt; 4. 



Sharpening the poles * .0 10 10 



Manuring - - - 2 



Picking, drying, and duty, at ll. 10s. per hundred, the crop being eftimated at 



12 cwt. the acre - 18 



Bagging and occafional expence of bags, about - - . o 16 



Afh poles, eftimated at 30,250 to the acre, and fuppofed to laft eight years, me 

 dium price, 18s, a hundred at the flub, eighth part of which is nearly 313 

 Carriage of ditto, eftimated at - - - . - 150 



31 2 4 

 Produce. 



12 hundred per acre, and that the medium price is 41. the hundred, 

 the amount will be - - - - - - 48 00 



And the expenfes deducted cut of the produce will leave a medium profit of 16 17 8 



