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 All the people employed about Ponte- 

 fraci in the liquorice plantations are paid 

 by the day, and not as in hop-gardens, 

 <&c. by the piece : This circumftance made 

 it difficult to difcover the cxpences and 

 profit of an acre of liquorice; but from the 

 bed: intelligence I could gain, it is not far 

 from the following (ketch : 



Their rents rife from 4 /. to 8 /. ? 



per acre ; commonly about ;> 

 The coil of the plants from 2 sr 



to 5 s. per 1 000, fay 3 s. 6d. 



90,000 plants, at that rate, 



amount to 

 The firft digging the land cofts 

 The common digging, we can- ~j 



not eftimate, in proportion / 



to the price of the firft, at f 



lefs than 

 Manuring, I calculate at 

 Striking into beds 

 Planting 



Wheeding the firft year 

 Cutting off the tops 

 Hand-hoeing the fecond year 

 Cutting off the tops 

 Hand-hoeing the third year 

 Cutting off the tops 

 Piling up, &c. 





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