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HEMP, 



MODE OF TREATMENT AFTER SOWING, AS HOEING, 



WEEDING, Sfc. Sfc. 



When the plants come up, they should be hoed out like 

 turnips, leaving the plants twelve or sixteen * inches apart, and 

 cutting down all the weeds. The crop will require a second hoeing 

 about a month or six weeks after the first, in order to destroy the 

 weeds; after which the Hemp will soon cover the ground, and 

 prevent the growth of the weeds. 



Chambers's Dictionary. 



Hemp is esteemed very effectual for destroying weeds: but this 

 it accomplishes by impoverishing the ground, and thus robbing them 

 of their nourishment, so that a crop of it must not be repeated on 

 the same spot. — It also possesses the further property of driving 

 away almost all the insects that feed upon other vegetables; hence, 

 in some places on the Continent, they secure their crops from these 

 mischievous attacks, by sowing a belt of Hemp on any particular 

 spot which they wish to preserve. 



Encyclopedia Britannica 



When 



"* The Encyclopaedia Britannica says, two feet. 



