ON HEMP. 



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It is indeed true, that the cultivator, individually considered, 

 does not gain the whole, nor perhaps any thing more than a very 

 small proportion of this gross surplus : but whatever may remain to 

 him as a neat profit, the whole is clearly a public gain ; since the 

 excess goes for manual labour, necessarily incurred by the extra 

 .means of cultivation. And this gain is of the more importance, as 

 arising on articles of importation, on which the very existence of 

 the nation depends. . Dumo. 



Estimate of the Produce and Expense of an Acre of Land, 

 cultivated with Hemp in Nova Scotia. 



Produce. 



Ten hundredweight, at 35s. per cwt <£l7 10 



Expences. 



First ploughing, 7s. 6d. ; second and 



third, 8s .... 







15 



6 



Three harrowings 







6 







Two bushels of seed, at 12s 



1 









Sowing, covering seed, and water-fur- 









rowing .... 







5 







Pulling, eight days' work, at 2s. 6d. . . 



1 











Drying and bundling, two days, .... 







5 







Watering, grassing, drying, and housing 



1 











Carried forward 15 G 



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