ON HEMP. 



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When the land is sown, go through the whole with a shovel, 

 and with it make little paths at seven feet distance from each other; 

 so that, at the proper season, you may reach the male plants, which 

 you will have occasion to pull first, without trampling on the female, 

 which must stand at least a month longer to ripen the seed. 



Abbe Bridles. 



The sowing must be postponed as long as possible, while there 

 is any appearance of nig^t-frosts, such being very prejudicial. And 

 it is also to be observed, that, although those parts of the countries 

 in question, * which produce these articles in the greatest quantities 

 and perfection, are situated within the same degrees of latitude as 

 England or South Britain, the climates of the two countries bear 

 little or no resemblance to one another ; the transitions from winter 

 to summer being so much more instantaneous, besides that the 

 heat and cold are far more intense in the former than the latter, that 

 they cannot be said to enjoy any of the advantages of the English 

 spring and autumn ; but that this seems to be amply made up to 

 them, in the first place, by the very great degree of nourishment 

 which their soil receives from the fat, slimy, nitrous substance, 

 whichj on the melting of the snow, remains on the surface, impreg- 

 nating and opening the ground to the depth of three or four inches, 



N according 



* Russia, Prussia, Poland, &c* 



