ON HEMP. 



If Hemp is to be sown on very strong soils, they must be 

 brought into so good tilth, and be so well manured, that their 

 mould may remain loose. In this case such soils yield very great 

 crops. 



It is the custom in some countries to form Hemp-grounds, 

 which are appropriated solely to this purpose; whereupon the au- 

 thor of a very judicious Account of the Culture of Hemp, in the 

 Memoirs of the Royal Society of Agriculture at Tours, p. 32, 

 justly observes : " That, besides that all soils delight in a change of 

 " plants, Hemp is so far from impoverishing the ground, that the 

 " leaves which fall from it become a sufficient manure, and the 

 " depth to which the roots go, especially if the crop of Hemp be 

 *' great, leaves the ground sufficiently loose to sow upon it even a 

 " crop of wheat, immediately after the Hemp has been pulled, 

 " without any other expense than sowing the seed and harrowing it 

 " in ; or if turnips, or a spring crop, be more convenient to the 

 " farmer, these also will thrive well after the Hemp. It is said, that 

 " the Hemp which grows on an established Hemp-ground is softer 

 " and more silky than that which is raised elsewhere: but the dif- 

 " ference, if any, is very inconsiderable ; for- the Hemp which 

 " grows in the other parts of Anjou, for example, is found to be as 

 " good as that which is produced by any of the few established 

 " Hemp-grounds in that province." 



Mills's Husbandry. 



Hemp 



