250 of the Management and 



wet 5 and if the Dew be on them, or a 

 Shower of Rain has taken them, fliake the 

 Pole and they'll dry the fooner. If they be 

 over-ripe, they'll be apt to fhed their Seed, 

 wherein confifts their chiefeft Strength^ nei- 

 ther will they look fo green as otherwife they 

 would do, but feme what brown, which 

 much leffens their Value ; tho* the longer they 

 ftand the lefs they waftein Bulk, and the more 

 they cncreafe in Weight. The moft expe- 

 ditious and fafeft Way to gather them, is to 

 make a Frame with four (hort Poles or Sticks 

 laid on Forks driven into the Ground, of 

 that Breadth, as to contain either the Hair- 

 Cloth of your Kiln, or a large Blanket tack'd 

 round it about the Edges. On this Device 

 the Poles with the Hops on them may be laid, 

 being either fupported by Forks, or the 

 Edges of the Frame 5 at each Side whereof the 

 Pickers may ftand or fit, and pick the Hops 

 upon it. When the Blanket or Hair-Cloth 

 is full, untack it, carry it away, and place 

 another, or the fame empty 'd, in the fame 

 Frame again ; and this Frame may be daily 

 remov'd with little Trouble to feme new 

 Station, for Convenience in the Work. 



As faft as the Hops are picked they inuft be 

 dry'd^ the Flemminq^s and Hollanders ercd in 

 Ooft or Kiln on purpofe for this Bufinefs 5 

 but we commonly dry them on an ordinary 

 Malt-Kihi in a Hair-Cloth 5 tho' fome Perfons 

 are at the Trouble of making a Bed of flat 

 Ledges about an Inch thick, and two or 



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