A Note on Hops, by a Gentleman Hiling bimſelf a Middle Kent Farmer; inſerted in the Margin of the Original Printed

BLA Manu cript, circulated for Remarks and Obſervations b by the LN Board of Agriculture,

HE author of theſe pages, an Eaſt Kent* corn-far- mer, appears to write in a moſt ſenſible judicious j manner on ſubjeâ&s falling within his immediate obſerya- 4 tion, | On the plantations of the middle of Kent, and refider as he has been forty miles from them, he has had Very little opportunity of in forming himſelf; for can it be

ſuppoſed A ſtranger who comes into a town fOr av

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ery few days, which I learn from the parties he quotes for his 1nformation, was the caſe, ſhould procure ſufficient M(at beſt at ſecond hand) information to write ſo f ully or | ſo correQly, as the large and very populous diſtri&t Ï quote, well known under the appellation of Middle

Kent, ought in juſtice to have; and in which the lar-

of

geſt capital, in proportion to îts extent, is employed in agriculture, perhaps of any part of England of a ſimilar ſize, and confiderir g1t 1s almoſt without manufaQures as

populous in proportion,“ I was informed by one of the

# The Fditor has been a hop-planter ur pwards of twenty years, the greater part of the time on a large ſcale, and he has often had opportu- nities of ſeeing the Middle Kent pla ntat1ons. His enquiries at Maidſtone canfirmed him 11 the ſentiments he has expreſled in this report.

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