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ON .HEMP. 



Produce, brought forward .... ^17 10 



Expences, brought forward . . £\> 15 6 

 Carting to and from the water, say one 



mile „ 10 



Dressing ten hundred-weight, five days' 



work per hundred-weight, Is. a day 5 



Rent of land 1 



Total Expence .. .... ^£11 5 6 



Clear profit per acre .... £ 6 4 6 



In this calculation abundance of labour is allowed, and large 

 prices for that labour, particularly for the dressing, which is the hea- 

 viest expence. In the winter season labourers might be paid and 

 fed for half the wages allowed, and would soon, I think, do more 

 work. Yet, after deducting all expences of land and rent here is 

 a clear profit, exceeding the whole produce of an acre of the best 

 wheat. W. C. Tonge, Esq. in Annals of Agriculture. 



BENGAL. 

 SUNN, 



The Profit attending its Cultivation, compared with Grain, Cotton, 

 Mulberry, Indigo, or other staple Productions of the Country, 

 Benares. — The same ground being used for the Hemp, bar- 

 ley, and wheat, it may be necessary to observe, that the former has 



been 



