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(Joat. You may have three or four waggon loads of hctnp, to the 

 depth of three or four feet, sunk at a tiuve, but it should be com- 

 pletely submerged, though not suffered to touch the bottom. If 

 separate quantities are put in on several successive days, the days 

 and quantities should be noted, for the purpose of ascertaining 

 which becomes first wretted, and which should, therefore, be first 

 taken up : for, if left in the water a day or two too long, the hemp 

 will be materially injured. 



Dressing and Securing. -^When rotted, open and spread it, that 

 it may dry soon. The process for breaking and swingling, is the 

 same as that for flax. When it grows too long for dressing, (say 

 from 8 to 10 feet.) it may be cut into two equal parts without any 

 injury. Be very particular in keeping the long and short hemp 

 separate, and not have the seed and butt ends put together : be 

 also careful to dress it clean. When dressing it, put twelve hand- 

 fuls in one head, laying them straight, the length of the hemp. The 

 handfuls must not be tied, but bind the heads tight with a small 

 band, about one foot from the butt end : it will then be ready to 

 be put into such sized bales as may be suitable. Some bail it into 

 a box, across the bottom of which four ropes are laid to tie the 

 hemp when pressed into it. When packed, it should be perfectly 

 dry, otherwise it will rot. 



The following remarks from the ' Plough Boy,"* on the subject of 

 water-rotting in preference to dew-rotting, coincide with the opi- 

 nion of experienced cultivators : " If the crop is to be dew-roited 

 and got out by hand, its profits must be comparatively small, be 

 cause it cannot be thus prepared to command the highest price in 

 market, compete in quality with the Russia hemp, much less drive 

 it from our markets. But, if the American hemp-planter be pre- 

 pared with proper machinery to dress and prepare it, we ought not 

 to doubt, much less to despair, of his ultimately arriving at a per- 

 fection in the production and dress of the article, to equal, if not 

 excel, the best samples of Russia hemp." 

 [To be continued.] 



PEACH AND PLUM TREES. 



The following is copied from the American Farmer. We pub- 

 lish it for the information of our readers who already have peach 

 trees, and for those who may have them hereafter. We are san- 

 guine that peaches will hereafter be raised in this State, with com- 

 parative ease. The method recommended for preventing worms 

 we have tried, and find it, in general, eflicacious. There is an- 

 other method which we would recommend, but have never had an 

 opportunity of trying it — it is to lay on a covering of tar with a 

 brush, or wind around the part of the body which is laid bare bv 

 the spade, oakum, well smeared with tar. 



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