ON HEMP. 7£ 



Three bushels and a half of good bright seed are sufficient for 

 an acre Rev. Mr. Mills, in Suffolk Report. 



At Swineshead: Three bushels per acre. — At Haxey: Ten 

 pecks a chain-acre. Lincoln Report. 



Not less than three or four bushels to an acre. 



English Farmer. 



Three bushels to an acre. Mills's Husbandry. 



The seed ought always to be sown thin, not exceeding two 

 bushels to an acre ; and if you have the advantage of a drill plough, 

 Still less will do. Abbe Brulles. 



Hemp-seed should be sown at the rate of fourteen pecks per 

 acre. M'DonaWs Essay. 



If sown broad-cast, two bushels of seed for an arpent, or four- 

 fifths of a Statute acre. Taylor's Instructions. 



From eleven to fourteen pecks per acre. 



A. Young. 



From twelve to sixteen pecks per 

 soil. If sowed in drills, less will do. 



acre, according to quality of 



Argyleshire Report. 



