WATERING HLMP. Ql^ 



by loading them with ftones, turf, clods of ear lb, and even 

 mud; in iixin^ and fecuring tbefe rafts by driving in (lakes ; a 

 tedious work, and the more troublefome, becaufe 10 

 kilogrammes of hemp-ftalks cannot be immerfed without a 

 weight of 15 or '20 kiU^grammes, and, after the fleeping, all 

 this iDaf^ nuiti be removed, to take the bundles out of tlie 

 water, and walh them. 



T!ie cod of the new procefs confitls principally in the price 

 of the (olvent made ufe of, which amounts to about eight 

 centimes for a kilogramme of tow. To this ftiould be added 

 the price of combullible necetfary for heating the liquor, if 

 this conibu ft ibie was not afforded by the reeds of the bundles, 

 whether (key are peeled wet or dry. 



At an equal cxpence, the new procefs is ftill preferable to 

 tiie old, becaufe, from what has been faid, it renders th^ 

 manipulation more expeditious and more ealy. 



5lh. Eight kilogrammes of hemp-flalks fteeped by the new comparative pro- 

 procefs, commonly produce two kilogrammes of pure tow,°""' 

 by peeling when wet; whereas hemp fleeped in water by the 

 old procefs, and beaten, does not yield more from eight 

 kilogrammes than one and a half. 



The dry peeling of hemp fteeped in the old way does not 

 produce the fame quantity as that which is peeled when we(: 

 the breaking of the reed in many places occafions a greater 

 lofs of tow. 



The hemp being vvaflied, beaten and combed in the old 

 method, a kilogramme of long tow is obtained from four 

 kilogrammes of the rough tow; the remainder is fliort ftuff, 

 hards and dull. 



The fame quantity of hemp, manipulated in the new way, 

 yields two kilogrammes of long tow, one kilogramme of 

 fecond tow, and about a kilogramme of (hort fhifFand hards. 



Thus from eight kilogrammes of hemp ftalks, two kilo- 

 grammes are obtained in rough tow by the new procefs, and 

 from. this quantity is obtained one killograrame of the fir(l 

 low, which does not exift in any known manipulation. 



6ih. The inhabitants of the banks of rivers and of theExtenfion of the 

 valleys, are almoft the only perfons who cultivate hemp : *^"^^"'^°'^ hemp, 

 they owe this privilege to the vicinity of the waters, and 

 the humidity of the foil. By the new procefs the culture of 

 heix^p will be extended to all places, and procure a new and 



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