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HEMP, 



PROFIT ON CULTIVATION. 



Having thus traced the material through its various stages as 

 a production of the soil, I shall close this part of the work with the 

 following statements, by which it will appear how far it may be 

 considered as a profitable article of cultivation. 



In Hemp countries, when the season is favourable, they have 

 immense returns ; insomuch, that the profit arising from five or six 

 acres is found sufficient to support a family. . M i Donald. 



The Abbe Brulles calculates the expences and profit of an 

 acre of Hemp in England as follows : 



• Expences, 



Rent £l o 



Manure, the first year more than others ; but it is most 



advantageous to sow after a turnip crop : say .... 2 



Three times' ploughing and harrowing 018 



Carried forward 3 18 



