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APPENDIX. 



To induce landlords to withdraw these prohibitions is my principal object in the 

 present concise and hasty statement of facts: and, as it would be improper in me to 

 recommend that to others, which, in similar circumstances, I would not do my- 

 self, it behoves me to state, that I have strongly advised the growth of Hemp in 

 the whole of a parish which belongs to me in the county of Gloucester, provided 

 the crop is not sown on the same land more than once in three seasons, and I shall 

 give my tenants a similar option in the adjoining county of Somerset. 



It is probable that one hundred and forty thousand acres of land, at the rate 

 of a ton from somewhat more than three acres, would grow more than the whole 

 annual consumption of this country, amounting to 35,000 tons, (independent of 

 what would be required annually for seed ;) and I have no doubt but that a most 

 ample supply might be obtained from the ten following counties only, viz. 

 Lincoln, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Northumberland, York (East 

 Riding), Leicester., Warwick, Gloucester, and Somerset. 



These counties are, perhaps, best adapted to the culture of Hemp, without 

 any material derangement of their present system of husbandry, so far as regards 

 the growth of corn ; because Hemp is generally admitted to be a most excellent 

 preparative for wheat. Thus it leaves the far greater part of South Britain and 

 Wales, together with the whole of North Britain, in the undisturbed possession 

 of their presept mode of cultivation. A large proportion of Ireland also, from 

 its climate, and the strength of its soil, is admirably adapted to the groAvth of 

 Hemp. 



This crop may be sown on strong land without manure, and on inferior soils 

 with it ; and, unless it is suffered to stand for seed, it does not, in the opinion of 

 the best judges, impoverish the soil. 



It requires clean tilth, and is sown to the middle of May, after which neither 

 the foot of man or beast must be admitted upon the crop. The expence of seed, 

 three bushels per acre sown broad cast, did not formerly exceed one pound ster- 

 ling. The average return was seven guineas per acre. The price of seed must, 

 of course, at the present crisis, be enhanced, and whether a sufficient quantity 

 ■can be obtained this season, to sow such a tract of land as is here suggested, 



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