AUG.] PULL HEMP. 411 



Is. per peck, according to the quantity originally 

 sown. 



When it is all taken up, and bound in small 

 bundles, with bands at. each, end, to such a bigness 

 as you can grasp with both hands, it is conveyed to 

 a pond of standing water (if a clay pit the better), 

 where it is laid bundle upon bundle, direcl: and 



xicross, thus, ! I _ _ i this is termed a bed of 

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hemp, and after it is piled to such a thickness as to 

 answer the depth of the water (which cannot be 

 too deep*), it is loaded with blocks and logs of 

 wood, until all of it is totally immersed : after re- 

 maining in this state four or five days, as the wea- 

 ther shall direcl:, it is taken out and carried to a 

 field of aftermalh, or of any other grass that is 

 clean and free from cattle ; the bundles being un- 

 tied, it is spread out thin, stalk by stalk ; in this 

 state it must be turned every other day, especially 

 in moist weather, lest the \\orms should injure it. 

 Thus it remains for six weeks or more : then it is 

 gathered together, tied in large bundles, and kept 

 dry}- in a house till December or January. 



In the fens the male and female, or fernble and 

 seed-hemp, are frequently separated. This may 



* This deserves experimental inquiry : watering hemp is a 

 partial rutting through fermentation : the vicinity of the atmos- 

 phere must, for that purpose, be necessary. The best hemp 

 ponds I have seen have not exceeded the depth of five feet. 



| It might do as well stacked, if kept perfectly dry. 



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