20 ON HE MP. 



sometimes been sown upon the breaking up of an old ley, and, 

 where there has been sufficient depth, with success. 



Agricultural Survey of Suffolk. 



There is no soil in which Hemp will thrive so well, as in fine 

 fat, rich, black-moulded sand. Indeed, there is hardly any soil so 

 little addicted to weeds as that I have now described. 



Complde English Farmer. 



Coarse Hemp, such as is required for the manufacture of ca- 

 bles, hawsers, and other heavy rigging, requires every where an 

 abundance of manure and land of the richest quality. 



In Lincolnshire, where strong and heavy Hemp is grown, the 

 Hemp gardens are small, and near the houses of the growers. 

 These gardens absorb vast quantities of manure, and produce Hemp 

 every year, without any alteration of crop, or any change, except 

 that, in years when the Hemp is pulled early, a few turnips are 

 sown for a stubble crop. 



In Russia, the same mode of cultivating Hemp on small 

 patches of land, near the houses of the growers, prevails, no doubt 

 from the facility of getting manure upon it. In Romagna, where 



the 



