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fortnight. From t^n to fourteen hun- 

 dred, to an acre, is efteemed a good 

 crop ', but there are inftances of twenty 

 hundred being grown upon an acre ; 

 which, at five pounds a hundred, a- 

 mounts to an hundred pounds an acre. 

 But this feldom happens. 



As foon as the hops are picked, they 

 are carried to the kihis to be dried ; and 

 about five or fix days after they are 

 dried, it will be a very good time to 

 bag them. 



The befi: way of bagging is, to have 

 a hole cut in a chamber-floor, or loft, to 

 the jufl fize of the bag; the mouth of 

 which muft be fixed to a frame, laid 

 upon the floor, with the bottom part 

 hanging fufpended below. A man then 

 gets into the bag, with a heavy weights 

 which he keeps removing, to the place 

 where he is not immediately treading. 

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