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HOPS. 
Smith had about five hundred weight of hops, this 
year, 1807, from each acre. 
In the hop-yard last named, are fruit-trees in every 
fifth i*idge, and at fourteen yards in the rows, about 
twenty-four per acre. 
In another hop-yard, I observed a row of potatoes 
between each hop-ridge, and turnips are sometimes 
sown, when hops fail; tumps here at five feet, and 
sometimes at six feet. 
Wheeler's hop-ground, rented, with a farm, from 
Mr. Smith, was thirty acres; but part now cultivated 
for other uses, or laid to grass ; ridges here eight feet, 
stocks three feet six inches in rows; this is two roods 
and twenty-three perches per acre. 
8, 9, and 10. Sort , Management , and Cultivation .— 
The general division of the sorts is into the red, green, 
and white. Amongst the local, or provincial distinc¬ 
tions, Mr. Pomeroy has named the Golding-Vine, and 
Mathon-White. Mr. Crane named to me, as favourite 
varieties, in addition to the red hop, the non-pareil 
and Kentish grape; but these distinctions I suppose 
to be local and provincial, and not capable of convey¬ 
ing general information. 
The first year green crops, as above, are cultivated 
on the skirting of the ridges, and the hop-plants are 
three times kerfed, to mould and keep them clean, but 
are not poled; the second year they are poled about 
May-day, and may produce half a crop; the third 
year, and afterwards, they are supposed in perfection. 
The regular annual cultivation afterwards is,—the 
ridges are ploughed down in March, or the tumps 
kerfed down, and the manure worked in; also the 
hop-plants on ridges kerfed where the plough cannot 
go; they are afterwards plough-hoed, or kerfed, three 
times 
