154 CVLTV9.Z AN© PREPARATION OH HE^S'^ 



Barley or Oats. 

 Ground well manured. Hemp, 



But sometimes they dress the ground well for hemp everjr 

 third year. The quantity of hemp sown in Dorsetj is very 

 Hemp and flax trifling in comparison to what is sown in Somerset. In the 



much cultivat- former it is chiefly confined to eight or nine parishes ; whereas 

 «d in Somerset. -^ js r j 



very large quantities are raised in Somerset, in the parishes of- 

 Misterton, Crewkevne, Hinton St. George, Lopen, Seaving- 

 tons, Ilminster, Stocklinch, Donyatt, Kingstone, Shipton, 

 Beauchamp, Barington, South Petherton, Martock, Norton, 

 Chiselborough, Stoke-under- Ham, Montacute, Odcombe, the 

 Chinniocks, the Cokers, the Comptons, Bradford, and a great 

 many other parishes. Mr. Emanuel Pester, of Preston, near 

 Yeovil, is in the middle of the hemp and flax county ^ and he 

 can doubtless obtain and give every information that may be 

 wished on the subject, being so extensively engaged in agricul- 

 tural pursuits himself, and so competent to give that sort of 

 Boanty for- information wanted. A bounty of 3d. per stone on hemp, and 

 ^^^'^^'^0^ 4(1, per stone on flax, was for many years given by government, 

 but is now discontinued ; it was paid by the clerk of the peace 

 for the counties, and as the late Mr. Wallace managed that for 

 the county of Dorset uncommonly well, it is most probable, 

 -that a very correct return for the county of Dorset could be 

 obtained from the office of the clerk of the peace for this 

 county, of the quantity raised each year of both articles, dur- 

 • ing the continuance of the bounty ; also from Devon and 

 Somerset similar returns couW be got. There are large quan-, 

 titles of hemp raised in Suffolk, the writer thinks, near St. 

 Very fine linen Edmund's-Bury and Stow-market, in that county. He has 

 Jit-mp. " '^ ' ^^^" ^^^^ ^^^'^y i^al^e linen so fine of hemp, as to be worth 5s. 

 and Qs. per yard, and used for shirts in preference to Iri^^ 

 being considered much more durable and better, so much so, 

 as to induce the Irish to imitate the fabric, and stamp the cloth, 

 Suffolk hemp. It is also raised in Norfolk, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Lynn and Wisbeach, but it must be watered and pre- 

 pared in some other way; indeed he is convinced that all the 

 hemp imported from the Baltic is prepared differently from the 

 mode used in Dorset and Somerset, and must have been swin- 

 gled before it was sent to the different ports it was shipped at 

 Bounty iliould for this country. The giving the former bounty on the growth. 



