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 Account of an Acre. 



If on the sward, the rent will be 40s. more; and the crop 

 will he from 40 to 60 stohe ; about 50 good. 



At Butterwick, in the Isle, their best wheat follows flax; 

 the crops of the latter 50 stone. 



At Garthorpe, on fresh land, flax produces 50 stone ; they 

 sell it, as it stands, for 6Z. or 11. an acre. 



To the Secretary of the Bath Agricultural Society, by a Dorsetshire 

 Gentleman, 1781. 

 Mr. Rack, 



I BEG leave to trouble the Gentlemen of the Bath 

 Society with a few remarks on the culture of hemp and flax, as 

 being articles of great national importance, and therefore well 

 worthy their attention. 



I have often observed, that the greater part of those rich 

 marshy lands lying to the west of Mendip-hills, are as badly 

 managed as any in this county, or perhaps in the kingdom. 

 The farmers, whose property it is, seem content with the pro- 

 duce it affords them without much cultivation or labour ; and 



