evcr has this efi^efl, has, befides the benefit of fupportjng 

 the (lock of a farm, that of aiding to manure the hemp 

 grounds, efpecially if it be iheep that are fed on it ; there- 

 fore if this method fails, it would be prudent, imtinediately' 

 as the hemp is off the ground, to plow it up, and fow tur- 

 jiips, cole fted, rye, or any other thing proper for Iheep 

 feed, which can be gotten off early in the next fpring, fo 

 as to be able to till the land well iri time for receiving the 

 bemp feed. 



It is left an injury to the hemp fo pull the plants before 

 they are ripe enough, than to leave them too long {land- 

 ing. It is a lefs injury, in foaking the hemp, to leave it 

 too Jong in the water than to take it put before it is fuffi« 

 ciently foaked. 



Tne more the hemp is cleanfed after getting off the 

 reed, the finer it becomes, and the finer dreffing it requires : 

 Nothing but experience can mark the degrees. 



The mod advantageous time to begin the culture of 

 bemp on any land, is immediately after a crop of turnips j 

 exactly the fame as if you were about to fow barley. 



The coarfeft black foap, which colls in France only 

 three pence per pound, will fuffice for making the fuds 

 through which the hemp ihould pafs. 



It is afferted, from experience, "that putting the cluflers 

 containing the hemp feeiis to fweat and heat, caufes many 

 of the feeds to come to perfe6lion, which, in the common 

 method, would wither and become d-ead ; and that it of 

 courfe improves both the quantiiy^and quality. 



i4p. smprc-ved METHOD cf 'preserving the fine fla- 

 vour of BUTTE R, a77d of preventing fVf 



. GROWING RANCID. 



Coniinuni rated to the « Burlington Society for theprqmoting Agricul- 

 ture and Domeftick Manufaftures," by their President, and 

 ordered to be publifpcd. From the American Mufeum. Vol« 

 ~' Vlll.Page 172. 



JL O a peck of fine fait add one ounce of crude fal 

 ainmoniac, and two ounces of faltpetre,b.oth finely powderl 



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