80 Agricultural Report—Table of Duties on Hops. 
thofe to the north, in which the hay harveft is much later, the late rainy feafon has been 
wery unfavourable 3 indeed, much grafs in thefe fitwations is {till to be cut. , About Inver- 
nefs, in Scotland, and fome other places in that neighbourhood, the hay crops have alfo 
been very fhort. However, from the after-grafles being every where abundant, and the 
great ftocke of old hay in the country, there can be little apprehenfion of a fcarcity. The 
pea and bean crops do not in general appear to be very favourable; nor even the-turnipsy 
except in a few diftriéts where they were fown early. In Scotland, however, they have 2 
more promifing appearance, and the hoeing of them is already far advanced. In fome 
diftri@s of England potatoes have been much injured by the cur/: this was, probably, im 
fame degree caufed by the dry weather, which we have noticed in our former reports. 
Fallows are moftly in a high ftate of preparation. Notwithftanding the flattering profpect 
of a goad cyder crop, we are now informed that the apple-orchards every where fail. In 
fome diftriGs our reporters fay that they will not produce the fiftieth part of a crop. Pears 
are, however, more plentiful. i 
Wheat averages sos. 5d. and Barley 29s. 7d. per quarter. Beef fells from 3s. to 3s. rod... 
and Mutton from 3s. to 3s. 8d. perftone. : 
Hors. ‘Since our laft, this plant has daily grown worfe; the infe€ts have fo far over- 
fpread it, that it has undergone the black blaft, and many plants are completely ruined. 
The ftreng bine, however, throws out freth fhoots, and may yet produce fome hops: the 
duty is, notwithftanding, ftill laid at 32,0001.; and fome perfons imagine it will not 
amount to 20,co0ol. The correfpondent who furnithes this article, in the courfe of thirty _ 
years attention to the hop-plant, has feen.in former feafons a wonderful amendment at a 
later period, and under fimilar appearances and fimilar weather. In 1762, on the rath. 
Auguft, the duty was laid at 30,0001. though the produce proved to be 79,2751. 5 and on 
the gth Auguft, 1789, a feafon perfeétly fimilar, the duty was laid from 35 to 38,0001. 
But the produce was £.104,063! It may, therefore, yet be expedted, that the prefent 
prices cannot be fupported, efpecially as the quantity in hand is enormoufly large, being 
not lefs than 140 to 150,000 bags. ‘That our readers may form their own calculations, we 
have fubjoined a very curicus table of hop-duties from 1712 to the prefent time; and the 
eftimated confumption being about 82,000 bags, it will appear evident, ona comparifon 
of the duties from the laft clearing year, 1787, that the quantity in hand is not over-rated. 
The prefent prices are—-of pockets, from 71. 15s. to 81. 10s.—of bags, 71. os. to 81. Ss. 
A TABLE OF THE DUTIES ON HOPS. 




Years Growth. Duty. Years Growth. Duty. Years Growth. — Duty. 
B7ir - £.43,437 16 31740 - £.37,885 12 22f1769| s SN £16,200 8a 07 
Te) 3@.278 16 OME7ZE —) = 105,222 3 4t Jol -§ nG JO1,13t 2 112 
zz! - - 23,018 12 23) 42 -- = 145,550 15 1 419771) SSS | 33,143 5 Sy 
a= 5, 44467 SONY Po4g -) = 1G1y072 12. 93 7202 Say) Moen eee 
BR 444,975 °7 OM 44 = - 46,708 12 O44 73) 2 | aaareee 2O 
w= 20,354 16 53) 45+ - (34,035 0 “O74 SR | egeege ee Oe 
E72 = 554,609, 2° 30) 46 =) 197,879 70 6 f 75) Sh ma ee 
18 HES ,005 15 Sf 47 vet 60,605 ©) of 76) NS Gee Gye 
#9 - 90,317 19 O%f 48 - - 27,000 0 © IT} Sb 439581 13° 22 
20. - - 38,169 15 7Hf 49 - - 96,305 19 19 7818 159,891 2 Io 
E721 - 61,362 6 5} 50° - + 65,000 © Of ¥7q) 533143) 55,800" Som 
22 - 49,433 © 4241751 - - 73,954. 9 © f -80)116,380| 122,724 4 4 
23 - 30;279 9 63) 52 = - 79,000 O © 41781}109,c41 119,946 2 2% 
24 - 61,271 7 2) 53 - «= $1,000 0 ©O S2} 14,247} 16,385 3 8 
ak a G26) 63 54 = = 112,000 0.0} 83] 65,837) 75,712 26 6 
26 = 95,013 13. 934° 55 - 92,000 0 Of 84] 82,052] 94,359 17 73 
27 - 69,409 2 10f 56 - = 48,106 13 63 85! 97,986] 112,684 5 92 
28 - 41,494 8 9 | °57 ~ -- 69,713 6 gif 86} 83,453] 95,971 14 8 
29 = 48,441 0 Of 58 - - 72,959 2 63] 37| 36,719] 422227 3 4 
39 - 44,419 16 821 59 - ~- 42,115 © 34% 88/124,493] 143,108 0 0 
1731 - 22,600 0 of 60 - -1317,992 12 4§ 89] 90,489] 104,063 7 4% 
32 = 35,135. 9 O§1761 - - 8n,0cO 0 © 90} 92,905] 106,841 9 4¢ 
33 - 70,000 0 Oo 62 = =. 79295 14 IHI7gI} 90,056 103,565. 5 -3e 
34 - 375216 © of 63 - - 88,315 16 73§ 92\140,967| 162,112 19 55 
35 ~ 42;745 0 Of 64 -> = 17,178, 1 IH 93} 19,669/ 22,619 14 4t 
3.6" - 46,482 0 © GSui = iG aan reudge 4 941176,576 203,063 2 of 
37 = 56,495 10 6 f- 66 - - 116,503 15 938 95) 69,997 $2,342 19 44 
33 - 86,675 17 64 67 -. - 25,998 10 IcHf 96] 63,943] 755225 17 8 
39 =) OS IAD Ou 68 = + 114,102 0.0 ff 97|132.38c| 1575458 1 10k 




* In the year 1779, an RDDITIONAL duty was lad, of 5/. per Cent. and § per Cent. mir 
in 1782—memuaking in all 15 per Cent. additonal datics. 
in 17925. and-5/. per Cent. 
