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HEMP AND FLAX. 



It may amount to about 200 acres. 



Mr. Geo. Eaton, linen-weaver, informed me, that 

 about Diss there is not so much hemp grown as before 

 the price of wheat was so high, by a third or fourth. It 

 is affe6ted also by the high price of turnip seed ; for the 

 cottagers, &cc. sow turnips on their hemp grounds, and if 

 seed be high, they let them stand for a crop, instead of 

 sowing hemp every year in the common manner. The 

 necessity of manuring for every crop of hemp, impedes 

 much the increase of it under any circumstances. 



ACCOUNT OF AN ACRE. 



£• 



Rent, tithe, and rates - - 3 



Manuring 20 loads " ~ 5 



Five earths - - - - i 



Harrowing - - - O 



Seed, 10 pecks, at 2s. - - i 



Pulling - - - - o 15 

 Dew-retting spreading, 2s. 6d. turning,4s. 6d. t 



getting, 5s. - - J 



Breaking 40 stone, at 141b. is. 6d. - 30 



d. 

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£'H 14 6 



Value 



