648 Cultivation of Arable Land. Hops New Plantations E.vpences of* 



The expence of forming new hop plantations is very confiderable. In Suffolk 

 it is eftimated at from feventy-five pounds to one hundred, when every thing that 

 is requifite is included j the annual charges being nearly the fame as thofc which 

 have been ju ft Hated.* 



In the county of Kent, where the practice of letting out the culture of crops 

 of this fort to labourers who are experienced in the bufinefs in fome meafurc 

 prevails, they are faid not only to find a laving of expence, but to be fo much 

 relieved, in refpecl to the trouble of the different operations, as to confider it the 

 moft advifable mode.-j~ In thefe cafes, where&quot; fummer digging is omitted, and 

 recourfe is had to the ufe of the nidget, the expence will be a few millings more, 

 as is mown in the firft eftimate ; the difference in favour of this practice from 

 that where the planter procures and pays the workmen, being about one pound the 

 acre. 



The weather moft favourable to crops of this fort, in the different ftages of their 

 growth, is that which is warm without much rain, and where fouth or fouth-wefterly 

 winds prevail j as the hop is a plant which never fucceeds well in fuch feafons as 

 are wet, or when either eafterly or northerly winds continue for any great length of 

 time during the fummer months. Hot gleams of fun-mine after rain, or after 

 foggy mornings, in the latter fummer months, alfo prove highly detrimental to 

 thefe crops. High winds towards the approach of the picking feafon like wife 

 produce confiderable mifchief, by bruiftng and otherwife injuring the hops. 

 When unfavourable weather takes place, about the period in which the plants are in 

 blofTom, it is feldom that the produce is good or abundant, as many of the burs 

 generally fuffer in fuch a manner as to prevent their forming perfect hops. 



* Corre&ed Agricultural Report of Suffolk. 



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 fr The account is ftated in this way : Undertaker s charge, he paying and finding 



labourers for the different operations - - - - - - 3100 



Picking, drying, and duty - - - - 13 



Rent of land .... . 100 



Poles - - 500 



Manure - - t 2 10 



Tythe - - - - - 10 



Bagging cloth - .... 200 



,2S 10 O 

 * Synopfis of Haibaudrj. 



