The English improver improved; or the survey of husbandry surveyed ... / [Walter Blith].

  • Walter Blith
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[1652]
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Credit: The English improver improved; or the survey of husbandry surveyed ... / [Walter Blith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and plant new in their places... As forthe annuall charge ofthe Hop-garden after itis planted, the drefling the hills, the alleys, the hoing them, the poling, and tying to the poles, and order- ing the hops is ufually done for 40. £ an Acre, and pulling, and drying, and bagging by the day. not too old; or clfe good {weet Rie ftraw will do well,but char- coal beft of all. They mutt be Jayd about 9 or 10 inches thick,and dried a good while on that fide,& then turned upfide down,and dried as much on the other fide. About 12 hours wil dry a kiln full, which muft be followed night and day, and then Jayd up ina clofe room up- ona heap together fora month if your markets wil give way to frume and forgive again. When the ftalk begins to be brittle, & tread them not while they are hot,it will tread chem to duft ; and then either againft Sturbridge Fair, or what other markets thou provideft for,thou mayft bag them up as clofe & hard as is pofli- ble, either to 200 or 200 anda quarter ina bag,asthou pleafeft, but the ufual bag is200 &a quarter. And fo I come to my third particular,to fhew you the profits and advantages that are to be gained thereby. One Acre ofgood hops may poffibly be worth Th ata good market 40,50,or 6opound:: An Acre may bear 11 or m, 12 hundred weight,poflibly fome have done more,many ten,but of grant but 8 hundred,they are fometimes worth not above Lh the hundred, and fome other times they have been worth 12 or 14.1, a hundred, and ufually once in three years they bring mony enough. It isan excellent commoditie if curioufly and well hu(- bandried. I know in common waies of hopping, a Gentleman hath madeof two Acres andaRod 180.].in one year ; the fame ground hath after ic hath been improved let for 20:1. per an. to a Hop-mialtersnay I beleeve I could eafily prefident you with 100.1. that hath been made of one Acre,and may@e more. It is ufually a very good commodity, and many times extraordinary; and our nation may afcribe it unto it felf, toraife the beft Hops of any o- ther Nation. The conftant charge of a Hop-garden is ufually Known, menorder and drefs them ata rate by the Acre all the promifed. li2 CHAP Sagar Nr ne CORES RANE at SENT STS BER EIT ies
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