ON HEMP. 



days it appears above ground. When it has got to the height of 

 about eighteen inches, the ground must be well weeded; after 

 which nothing further is required to be done until the month of 

 August, by which period it is at its full growth (about five feet,) 

 and the flowers make their appearance. It is then (except what 

 is intended to be reserved for seed) cut down, as close to the ground 

 as possible, and laid in ridges, care being taken to place them so, 

 that the leafy parts lie one upon the other. In this state they con- 

 tinue ten or twelve days, or until the leaves begin to rot, and fall 

 from the stalks on being shook. 



Hurripaul. — It should be raised on high ground, where no 

 water will lie. First, dung is thrown upon the earth ; after lying 

 ten days, it is ploughed ; five days afterwards it is harrowed once ; 

 in two days more the seed is generally sown. The sowing never 

 should be delayed beyond seven days. After strewing the seed, it 

 is ploughed and harrowed. In three days the seed will begin to 

 shoot, and appear plainly in four or five. No further process is 

 required, not even weeding; the Sunn being set so close, and 

 growing so thick, that nothing else can easily come up. In a 

 month and a half it will be seven feet and a half or eight feet high, 

 at which time it bears a yellow flower. At this time it is cut down, 

 except what may be left for seed, the fibre from which will be in- 

 ferior. The season begins about the 10th May, and the crop is 

 gathered within two months. If sown every year in the same spot, 

 the soil would be impoverished, and the produce inferior ; the 



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