ON HEMP. 



Brought forward .£3 7 



Getting it in and out of water, turning and laying up 110 



Tithe and rates, suppose .... 6 



The lowest crop mentioned is forty-eight stone per acre, 



let us suppose only forty, breaking Is. 3d 



. 2 



10 







Total 



£1 



4 







Produce. 









Forty stone, tit Is. (a) .... .... 



£l± 











Parliamentary bounty, 3d. per stone . 



. 



10 









£14, 



10 







Expences .... 



7 



4 







Net profit per acre 



£n 



6 







From the Lincoln Report. 



AT SWINESHEAD. 



Expence. 



Three ploughings and harrowing , . . £o 15 



Seed * 015 



Sowing 6 



Pulling by the hundred (120) 1100, at Is. 6d 16 6 



Knocking and burning, at 6d. per hundred 5 6" 



Carried forward £1 12 6 



(a J Price of Hemp from 5s. €d. to 8s. per stone, generally 7s. 6d, In 

 1795, 10s. ; in 1801, 14s. 



