ur 
fowing is executed in the dill manner, a much fmaller quan- 
tity of feed may be fufficient. 
i ic 18, in th g {} ot »P 
inthe broadeaft manner, being difperfed over the furface of 
the prepared ground as evenly as poffible, and then covered 
in by means off light harrowing. 
Where drilling is hed recourfe to, which is fuppofed to 
have the advantange of more completely promoting the 
early growth of the plants, efpecially where feed is the ob- 
uld 
tk og 
kind of crop, is when 
as wher put into the 
foil too early, it may be greatly injured by them, and when 
The feed fhould, however, never be kept out 
of the foil amoment when the feafon is fuitable, as various 
i fuch as 
with- 
owth, and its 
e of manure to prevent 
wife duce. And. i 
ar produc in 
- It is conftantly neceffary, when the feed of the hemp 
plant has been fown, to. ue much caution in keeping the 
birds from the ground, as they otherwife devour a large pro- 
portion of it in a very fhort time. 
_ Afier-Culture—But little attention is neceflary in the ma- 
hagement of this crop after the feed has been depofited in- 
the ground, the tall growth and thick fhade of the plants, 
from the nature of their foliage, foon covering the fur- 
-face,fo as to prevent the rifing of every fort of field 
In cafes where the drill machine is employed in putting in 
i it i times the prattice to give 
more early ; 
farther, that in the culture of 
fhould be a mixture of the 
in order to the ob- 
med as Rear together as the 
t 
M P. 
the fide-furrows or intervals will give fufficient room to 
thofe who are engaged in the work of pulling. 
In fome diftriéts both kinds of the hemp plants are pulled 
together, while in others they are feparated, and the lait is 
{uppofed the belt practice where it can be adopted, as by 
pulling a large portion of the crop before it is preperly ri+ 
pened, the amount of the produce mult not only be confider- 
ably diminifhed, but its quality be much impaired in refpect 
to its durability. 
The work of pulling is performed by foreing 
manner for not more than 11 or 12s. 
the labour ftands confiderably higher. 
‘As foon as the labour of pulling is finifhed, the hemp is 
tied up into. {mall bundles, or what are éommonly denomi- 
nated baits 
becomes fo firm and d 
thes either immediately threthed out on large cloths for the 
in {mall 
may be 
fering it to 
days when the weather is fine, 
inconvenience in the watering of 
may be chopped off: with a knife for the purpofe, and be 
afterwards dried upon fome fort of cloth, bite h 
nes er 
avol 
od. 
Preparation of the Hemp.—Ih renderin the rind or bark of: 
sete ite fom % Meyda peta 
the hemp-plant proper for the ufes of the urer, it 
Seether St it to undergo a variety of other pro- 
former is denominattd dew-retting, the latter water-retting, 
> hemp plant which affords much the fineft hemp. Both tele proce 
the moft complete fuccets. The latter is the fort are faid to anfwer the mo hen the 
that yields the feed, the former affording merely flowers. to be tag 8 t going on, In the dite: 
Pulling. ~When crop is become pe eély ripe, which  retting methed, the hemp- alks are, immediately after 
is known by its putting on.a whitihh yellow colour, and the being pulled, fpread out in a thin, even, and regular way, 
i lems beginning to their leaves, it is time to ull it; but foasto keep exact rows on a fine pie fe, old, {ward 
the male fort of hemp frequently becomes ripe bint weeks Jand, which is~ pretty even on the farface, for the {pace of 
before that of. the fema , fix, oreveneight weeks, according to m j 
i being turned as often as may in the time. In 
late, or. when they are not too 
g 
full ned, Amd at the time one-part is pulled, it is ne- 
céflary to Be cautious that as little damage as poffible be 
done to the other. When the land is in naerow ridges 
as 
or in drills, there will be little danger of its being: injured: 
: ; t 
both lefs injured by being-pulled at 
requifite. : ae fu 
As foon as the rind or barky portion of the hemp-p 
mes ealily feparab a Si the firm part of the fter 
in two different methods, 
mitanees, twice is in general as moch a 
