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oil, and to be Kept perfectly clean from weeds: it will last under such treatment any number of

years, and when brokenup, produce vast crops of

corn. According to the Suffolk husbandry, the plan- tat tions are formed into beds sixteen feet wide, by digging tre} nches about three feet wide, and two eiaees eet deep; the earth that comes out being poae upon hed beds, and the whole dug and

f levelled. Upon this, they, in March, form the holes six feet asunder ever r way,» twelve inches diameter, and a spit deep; hye hich three rows are formed on each bed. a each hole they

pu t about half a peck of very rotten*dung, or

che ompost, scatter earth upon it, and plant se- ven sets in each, drawing earth enoug ch to them atterwards, to form something of a hi lliock, In two or three weeks, according to the season, they will be fit to pole, with old; Thos poles, to w hich they tie all the shoots or vines, and then ke cep the land clean by hoeing and raking: at Midsummer they hill them. Save SOW bedne. or plant cab- bages in the intervals, but it is not good prac- tice: Lhe produce of the first year may be three; Lie or five hundred weigh t of Hops per acre ‘The expence In labour en rming the beds Ges a new plantation, amounts in the whole, to four pounds an‘acre; the annual work, picking ex- cepted, may be put out to the labourers at four pounds an acre per annum, which includes to dig, strip, sack, clean drains, hoe, rake, hole, tie, &c.

Three holes are put to each hill, and conse- quently there are thisty hundred(at 190) to the

acre,

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