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according to its internal quality ; and secondly, by the succeeding 

 superior warmth and serenity or constancy of the weather : circum- 

 stances, to which the general stability, or rather equality, that may 

 have been observed to have prevailed in the crops of those countries 

 as, no doubt, in a great measure to be ascribed. 



Durno. 



It should be sown in drills, or small ridges, about three feet 

 broad, with two feet intervening between the ridges. 



McDonald's Essay. '■ 



Hemp should be sown broad-cast, after the rate of two bushels 

 of seed for an arpent, or four-fifths of a statute-acre. The seed 

 should be harrowed in by a harrow, with small iron teeth set close. 



Taylor's Instructions. 



The Hemp-seed should be sown thick ; for without this pre- 

 caution the plants grow too large, and the bark becomes too woody, 

 and the fibres too hard, which is a great defect. Care must, how- 

 ever, be taken, not to sow it so thick, that the plants would choke 

 one another. It is therefore necessary to observe a medium, the 

 knowledge of which is easily acquired by practice ; and indeed, in 

 general, Hemp-grounds seldom are too thinly stocked with plants, 

 unless when part of the seed has been destroyed by frosts, drought, 

 or other accidents. 



Du Hamel. 



