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ON HEMP. I05 



stand a little longer on the ground, that it may attain its full perfec- 

 tion, and be enabled to shed the farina with full effect on the female. 



Sinclair. 



Hemp is pulled thirteen or fourteen weeks after sowing : the 

 wetter the season, the longer it stands. It bears a dry season better 

 than a wet one. No distinction is made in pulling between the 

 male and female, or, as it is denominated in some places, the 

 Fimble and the Seed Hemp. In the Cambridgeshire fens they are 

 frequently separated, which may arise from the Hemp being 

 coarser and the stalk larger. The price of pulling it is one shilling 

 a peck of the seed sown, or eleven shillings an acre, and beer; but 

 if it comes in harvest, the expense is higher. It is tied up in small 

 bundles, called baits. Suffolk Report. 



The time of pulling is about the beginning of August, or 

 more properly speaking, thirteen weeks after sowing. The male 

 and female Hemp is pulled together : indeed, when the crop is 

 thick, it is impossible to separate them. The expense of pulling 

 is generally estimated at one shilling per peck, according to the 

 quantity originally sown. "When it is all taken up, it is bound in 

 small bundles, with bands at each end, to such a bigness as you can 

 grasp with both hands. It is then set up like wheat in shocks, till 

 the seed will freely shed, when it is threshed out. 



Rev. Mr. Mills, in Suffolk Report. 

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