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The produce of an acre may, on an average, be reckoned 

 forty-five stone. (The Suffolk stone is fourteen pounds and a half, 

 at seven shillings and sixpence.) In 1795, ten shillings; in 1801, 

 fourteen shillings. — Some crops rise to fifty-five and even more; 

 and there are bad ones so low as twenty-five. If sold on the ground 

 as it stands, it generally produces one shilling per rod, or «£8per acre. 



Suffolk Report. 



The soil and season make a very material difference in the 

 produce and quality. An acre will produce from twenty-five to 

 sixty stone : an average crop may be reckoned at about thirty-six 

 or thirty-eight. The seeded Hemp is not so good by one shilling 

 and sixpence, or two shillings per stone. 



The prices vary very much. Dew-ret Hemp, or Hemp retted 

 by the dew, instead of water, sells from one shilling to eighteen- 

 pence or two shillings per stone lower than water-ret. The present 

 price [in 1797] of the best water- ret is about eight shillings and 

 sixpence per stone ; but this is very high. 



A Stowmarkct Manufacturer, in Suffolk Report. 



In the state Hemp comes from the brake, tied up in stones, it 

 will fetch from six shillings to seven shillings and sixpence per stone. 

 In 1797 it sold as high as nine shillings. — The produce is so variable 

 and uncertain, that in one season a rood and six perches of land has 



produced 



