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the growth of hops than Great Britain ; they not being fo 

 fubje£b to moid foggy weather of long continuance ; which is 

 mod injurious to hops. And the Southern States are fliil 

 more favourable to the hop than the Eaftern States, in point 

 of flavour and ftrength. The State of New- York unites 

 fome advantages from either extreme of the Union. The 

 cultivators of land in this State have every inducement w^hich 

 policy or interefl can afford, to enter with fpirit into the 

 cultivation of hops. We fliall therefore be enabled to '/upply 

 our own demand, and export this article, inflead of fending 

 abroad for all we ufe ; and no crop that can polTibly be put on 

 land, will yield an equal profit. This culture will require 

 but little land — the labour may be performed at intervals, fo 

 as not to interfere or injure the other bulinefs of the farm, 

 by the aged, women, and children. 



There is no farmer of this ftate but may, with eafe, raife 

 from one quarter of an acre, to as much as three or four 

 acres of hops, the advantage of which would, in a few years, 

 be moft fenfibly felt, both by the individual concerned, and 

 by the State at large. 



In the city of New-York there are at prefent a number of 

 very large and refpeftable breweries eflablifhed, and new ones 

 are continually erefting. Thefe breweries not only fupply 

 this State and the fhipping with beer, but alfo the greateil 



