( MO ) 



A good crop of hemp is about equal to a good 

 crop of flax: but the firft crop, or fimble hemp, 

 is not worth above half as much as the other. 

 The great burthen of leaf it carries when green, 

 from which it is faid an excellent manure drops 

 upon the land, makes fome eftcem it the beft 

 management of any to follov/ hemp with a 

 wheat crop. 



Hemp is a very proper crop to be drilled i 

 as drilling fo greatly facilitates the cleaning of 

 the land, and is a real faving in many other re- 

 fpedls. This crop, if fuffered to (land till ripe 

 and fit for pulling, will be from ten to twelve 

 feet high. 



As to the mode of preparing hemp after the 

 feeds are thrafhed out of the heads, the ma- 

 nagement is very fimilar to that of flax. The 

 llalks are laid up in bundles, and fteeped in a 

 pond of fl:anding water — the cleaner the water, 

 the better ; they are fafl:ened to poles, and left 

 to foak about a fortnight, till you find the fub- 

 ftance of the fl:alk almofl: rotten : the bundles 

 are then taken out and well dried. 



When hemp has been well foaked and dried, 

 it is bruifed by fmall quantities on blocks, with 



beetles 



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