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When the ground is perfedly fuitable 

 for the crop, and fo fituated as to com- 

 mand a fufficiency of poles, hands for 

 picking, and manure at a moderate ex- 

 pence 5 hops are certainly an obie<5l of 

 great profit -, and land being enriched, 

 and at the fame time perfectly cleaned, 

 by their culture, is left in the beft of 

 all conditions for being laid down with 

 grafs. But, as they require an infinite 

 deal of attention, and fo great a quantity 

 of manure ; when farmers cultivate them, 

 except it be in the neighbourhood of 

 towns, they do it to the ruin of all the 

 reft of the farm. This is very evident in 

 the counties of Worcejler, and Hereford; 

 where it is very common, for a farmer 

 who occupies two hundred acres of land, 

 to apply the greateil part of his muck to 

 the nourishment, and fupport, of about 

 ten or a do?en acres of hops, and to ne- 



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