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ON HEMP. 



produced seventeen stone ; and another, with the same culture and 

 manure, only twelve* Rev. Mr. Mills of Bury, in Suffolk Report. 



At Swineshead, in Lincolnshire, forty-five stone is thought a 

 fair average crop ; fifty is deemed very good. 



At Haxey, forty stone is deemed a good crop : fifty is very 

 rarely obtained : from thirty to thirty-five may be reckoned as the 

 average. Many sell it by the acre. In peace, the price was JCS 

 or o£3. 10^. per acre. It was last year [1798] £5. Price per 

 stone from the breaker was in peace four shillings and sixpence or 

 five shillings per stone : of late it has been from six shillings and 

 sixpence to seven shillings. 



Produce of seed may be reckoned at from twelve to sixteen 

 strike per acre : it has been six shillings. 



At Butterwick in the Isle, they manure for Hemp, and get 

 fifty stone and upwards. The quality of the Hemp is best from old 

 Hemp land : it is worth two shillings more per stone than from other 

 lands. Lincoln Report. 



In England, 125lbs. of female [read male], and 375lbs. of 

 male [read female] Hemp, and sixteen bushels of seed, per acre. 



Abbe Bruiles. 



Ten hundred-weight per acre. 



Mr. Tonge, in Annals of Agriculture. 



Sir 



