HOI’S* 
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With respect to produce of hops, it is extremely 
various, (see Distempers,) many hop-yards have some¬ 
times none ; this year, 1807, is reckoned about, or 
hardly, half a good crop ; the produce generally, from 
two to four, or five hundred weight per acre, average 
about three hundred weight; in a full hit of hops, the 
profusion (like that of fruit) is very great, ten hundred 
weight per acre common; and even a ton upon an 
acre is said to have been grown. 
Profit and Loss Account. Of this, in the hop-cul¬ 
ture, it is difficult to form an accurate estimate ; Mr. 
Pomeroy estimates the average produce at six hundred 
weight, and the price at 3h JOs. making 2ll. per acre; 
I suspect the produce thus to be too high, and the price 
too low; but five hundred at 4l. 4s., four hundred 
weight at 5h 5s., or three hundred weight at 7k, will 
either produce the same result, viz. 2li. per acre; and 
if the average expenses be 15l. per acre, this would 
give 61. per acre profit to the grower, which is not too 
much for an article that requires so much extra atten¬ 
tion and exertion, especially when we consider that 
the family expenses are to be paid in part from it. 
I should be rather inclined to take the average produce 
at five hundred weight, at 4l. 4s., which 'would, upon 
6,000 acres, produce 1,500 tons, at 84l. Amount 
126,000k as the annual produce of the county being, 
as before, 2ll. per acre. 
That there is a fair profit to the grower, may he 
supposed, otherwise the culture would cease ; but, it is 
very certain, that much more has been gained by 
speculators in this article, than by the growers; what 
has been gained by the latter, has been chiefly by men 
of property, who could bear stock, and keep their pro¬ 
duce till it would bring a good price * to do which, 
they 
