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HEMP AND FLAX. 
shillings per acre, and in a full crop to considerably 
more. 
But in the growth of this valuable plant, the law of 
the land, and the custom of landlords, are at variance; 
the former offers bounties for growing it, and the latter 
generally forbidding its growth, although such growth 
may often be profitable to the grower, and for the 
public good, without injuring the land; for, if the land 
be fallowed for wheat or turnips, as is most proper, it 
will be in better condition than it Avas before.— Mr. C. 
He recommends sowing the best Riga flax seed, as 
producing the best quality both of stem, skin, and seed, 
and will so continue for two or three years, and though 
dearest at first, is cheapest in the end. 
Mr. C. recommends, after flax, stubble turnips, and 
the second year turnip fallow; he says, two bushels 
and a half is a proper quantity of seed for an acre; 
the land should be well harrowed previous to sowing' 
the seed, as well as rolled, as it cannot be in too me¬ 
liorated a state at sowing; the bounty, he says, is an 
object, having received GOl. at one time, for flax and 
hemp, by order of the sessions at Worcester. 
The various processes upon hemp and flax, after 
leaving the land, can only be described by those who 
are intimately acquainted with them, from whom it 
is not easy to get accurate information. When they 
are ripe and harvested, agriculture has done its part; 
the rest may be considered as a branch of manufac¬ 
ture.* 
Hops .—This plant has been long cultivated in this 
county in great perfection; but, as Mr. Pomeroy has 
gone, at considerable length, into their culture, and 
* Vide Premiums of the Board for 1809, for encouraging the 
Growth of Iiemp, 
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