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CHAP. VI. 



Of Hops and Hop-yards, and 

 their Management. 



H I S is one of our moft profitable 

 rural Employments 5 but it comes 

 more under the Cognizance of the 

 Gardener than the Hulbandmans 

 every Poffeffor of a Plot of Ground being ca- 

 pable of managing a Hop-yard without the 

 Expence of Ploughs,Cattle,d^A for its Culture, 

 (not but the Charge of keeping a Hop-Garden 

 in Repair is very confiderable) and by ma- 

 nual Induftry, with the Ufe cf the Spade and 

 Hoe, tp go through the feveral Particulars of 

 this Builnefs. The very great Eftates acquired 

 within an Age part in the Merchandize cf 

 Hops, is a fufScient Encoiiragement to all 

 induftrious Perfons to venture on thefe Planta- 

 tions ^ and befides the uncommon Profit, they 

 employ a greater Number of Poor than any 

 other rural Affairs whatfoever. The Plant- 

 ing, Soiling, Digging, Hoeing, Polling, 



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