^ WAT&KING HKMr. 



favcs time, ond. The tfpie of deeping being only (wo Imurs, afTorHs a 



faving of time of great value to the cultivator, particularly 



during the fcafon ol harveft. 



and is not in- 3rti, X|,e workman has no canfe to fear any injury of his 



luiiou* to health. , ,,.,./•«' i r • i i i 



nealtli : it is futticient to keep up a current oi air white the 



bundles are plunged into and taken out of the (ieeping veflel ; 

 the hanvl fulls of llalks or tow, which are afterwards expofed 

 on the grafs, do not emit any bad fmell, or vitiate the purity 

 of the air, whatever may be the quantity of hemp dried at 

 once in (he fame place. 



Every one knows, that when the bundles of hemp deeped 

 in water ii) the old method, are taken out and waflied, they 

 emit an infeftious odour which becomes infupportable during 

 tiie heats, and to which ferious diforders are afcrihed. Tl^e 

 vailey of the department of ihe Somme, and many others in 

 wliich hemp is fteeped, afford too conrincing proofs. The 

 waters are rendered unfit for the ufe of cattle, and the fitli 

 contained in them are frequently deftroyed. 

 Apparatus on a To accelerate the operation of lleeping by (he new procefs, 

 larger icale. -j^ countries where there rs an extenfive culture of it, inflead 

 of the portable fteeping vellel which was made ufe of in the 

 experiment?, the following apparatus may be adopted, con- 

 fjfling of a boiler and four wooden tubs, ferving for fteeping 

 veifels. 



After having heated the foapy matter to ebullition, it is 

 /ufFered to flow through a cock, into two of thefe tubs filled 

 with bundles of hemp, and clofed by a cover: while tiie flecp- 

 ing is going on in the two firft tubs, the necelTary quantity of 

 liquor is healed, to be conveyed into the other two, which are 

 alfo filled with bundles of hemp, and clofed with lids. 



By means of this very fimple apparatus, a confiderable 

 4juantity of hemp may be fleeped in a day without interrup- 

 tion. 

 Comparative 4th. The expence of fteeping in water, compared with that 



expcnccofthc required by the method of M. Bralle, is nearly the fame, 

 t\yo procc es. ^^^^ ^j^g fj^jjH {keeping veiTel is made ufe of; but if a cauldron, 

 rather Ifirge, and the fteeping tubs which have been mentioned 

 are employed, the coft will be diminiflied more than a half. 



In facl, (he expence of the firft includes the conveyance 

 of the hemp to be fteeped, the time employed in forming the 

 Indies of hemp into a fort of rafts, t^at they may be funk 



