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7. Planting. Mr. Crane’s hop-ground is mostly 
planted in ridges of seven feet asunder; five roots put 
near together are called a stock, and are about three 
feet and a half from middle to middle of each stock on 
the ridges ; the roots, when planted, are from three to 
six inches long, with two or three shoots in each ; no 
produce the first year, but green crops cultivated in 
young hop-yards, as pease, beans, cabbages, turnips, 
and potatoes. A hop-yard well managed will last twenty 
years.— Mr. Crane;. 
Fruit-trees here, on every fourth ridge, at eleven 
yards in the rows, which is about forty-eight on an 
acre; this assists the hop-culture in profit. An acre 
of hop-ground is not by measure, but one thousand 
stocks are, in all cases, deemed an acre, and the la¬ 
bour paid for by that rule. An acre of Mr. Crane’s 
hop-ground contains only 2 roods and 10 perches; 
each stock has two poles, or two thousand poles to a 
nominal acre. 
Mr. Crane has some short ground planted in tumps, 
about five feet from middle to middle, a stock of five sets 
or roots in each tump, and two poles to each stock, as in 
the ridge-work. One thousand of these stocks, or 
tumps, are called an acre as before, which, at five feet 
by measure, contains the same as before, or about 2 
roods, and 10 or 11 perches. 
’Squire Smith’s hop-yard, No. 1, in the Vale of the 
Teame, is in nine feet ridges, and four feet in the rows 
from stock to stock ; one thousand stocks thus occupy 
4,000 square yards, or 3 roods and 12 perches of land 
to the acre. In another of his hop-yards, No. 2, the 
ridges were eleven feet, and stocks in rows three feet 
six inches ; this is 4,277 square yards, or three 
foods and twenty-one perches per hop-acre. Mr. 
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