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open market to carry his product to ; and if be has 

 not, he may find a crop on his hands, easily sold, 

 but not perhaps at a fair price. The profit of cul- 

 tivating hemp, in hemp districts, is not inconside- 

 rable, amounting usually from 5l. to 7l. an acre, 

 which, under, certain circumstances, is an object 

 worth attention ; but here again he is to take into 

 his account some other circumstances which de- 

 mand attention. 



It requires the very best land to be found on a 

 farm, or which is made such by manuring: a rich 

 deep, putrid, friable, sandy loam : and it cannot 

 be too rich. It further demands ample manuring; 

 that is, from twenty to thirty Joads of dung per 

 acre, equal to forty cubical yards by measure. It 

 is true, that it will pay for this dung, but every 

 one knows that in calculations there is apt to creep 

 in (in the point of charging dung) some degree of 

 fallacy. Wherever spread, there, probably, will be 

 the greatest profit; and if hemp, hops, madder, 

 &c. rob the more common crops of dung, which, 

 but for their culture, would be disposed of other- 

 wise, it is no eayy matter to charge them for it 

 sufficiently high. If hemp enters largely upon a 

 farm (which it rarely does, and for this reason), 

 the cabbages, potatoes, lucern, &c. must be con- 

 tracted. 



Another very material circumstance is, that hemp 

 returns nothing to the farm wherewith to raise 

 dung: corn gives straw, and green crops swell the 



dunghill ; 



