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of Middle Kent are hop-farmsz; and corn makes only 2 ſecondary conſideration with them 4

In favour of our farmers and ſoil, it may with juſtice be urged, that, when our corn-land is robbed of its pro- Per return of manure by our hop- grounds; and theirs, on the contrary, has the whole of what 1s made from Its and one-third on the average added to it from the ſea,

1 I truft that what Mr. Boys, who 1s unacquainted with | our ftile of farming, may on a ſuperficial view think| 1 negligence or want of ſkill, will be more rightly placed M to the want of manure to ſupply the waße our hop- (M grounds make, by returni ing no manure back again, An | acre of hop-ground requires twenty Sod fized- cart- Y loads of well mixed and rotted dung and mould annually, | Allowance may Sa with propriety, be claimed ft for the corn and meadow-lands bearing leſs luxuriant | crops than the ſoil and ſame management under d1fferent

circumfſtances would do. When it 1s confidered that one-tenth, and with many one-fifth, of a farm is under hops, as well as the on of dung with it, will not the high fate of cultrvation of Middle Kent appear

extraordinary? For certain it is, that the greateft exer-

fe tions(without a regard to expence) are made to replace| ; the waſte of manure, as well as to render all the Crops produdive, In conſequence, the very confiderabie eXPen- diture of our farms in labour,&c,. has occaßoned this

diflriét to be the moft populous of any other part of the l

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county, or perhaps of England, where there are no máa- nufadtures carried on, j A farm that has twenty-one acres of hops, requires ſeven hop-ground men, at leaf, to look after it; but two and a + This is more a condemnation of the huſbandry than a proof of its

füperiority; E confeſſedly, the corn-land is ſacrificed to the hop- ground Se tor.

half