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ON HEMP. 



land is, therefore, every other year, appropriated to sugar, cotton, 

 or early grain. 



Rung pore.— About the month of March the cultivation of 

 the land commences. It is frequently ploughed, cleaned, manured, 

 and ploughed again for the space of a month ; the soil being well 

 mixed, broken fine, and laid smooth. The seed is strewed over 

 the ground lightly in the month of April. In about eight or ten 

 days the plants begin to rise. About fifteen or twenty days after, 

 the ground is carefully weeded. When the plants have risen to the 

 height of a haut, or half a yard, those which may have sprung up 

 too close to each other are transplanted to more open parts of the 

 field. When they have risen to the height of one and a half or 

 two hauts, the ground is again weeded ; after which they are left 

 to ripen, without further care. In about four months from the 

 time of sowing, the plants will have arrived at maturity, at which 

 time their height will be about five hauts. Those plants which are 

 reserved for seed are generally allowed to remain a few days longer 

 on the ground than the rest, till the seed begins to loosen in the 

 husks. 



Board of Trade Cons. 24th August, 1792. 



DACCA DISTRICT, 



■ Bazetpore.— *If the ground has lain waste any length of time, 

 it will require to be many times ploughed, previously to the reception 



of 



