ON HEMP. 



Ill 



When the male Hemp is well ripened (which will be about the 

 second week of August), let the persons who pull the Hemp clear 

 passages through the field, of about two feet wide, and six feet 

 distant from each other, by pulling the male and female Hemp 

 which grow promiscuously within the said space of two feet. Let 

 the Hemp thus plucked be carried to other ground in the neighbour- 

 hood, and spread thereon, about an inch thick. After it has been 

 thus laid for two or three days exposed to the sun and air, turn it 

 with a small pole, and let it lie a day or two more. Then bind it 

 up in bundles, about the thickness of your thigh, or near three 

 quarters of a yard in circumference : and either proceed to water- 

 rot it, as it is termed, immediately, or house it from rain, till a 

 \more convenient opportunity offers for the purpose. 



After having done this, proceed to pull up the male Hemp, 

 which is left growing amongst the female Hemp, leaving the latter to 

 grow with as little injury as possible until the seed is ripe. The male 

 Hemp may be dried in the intermediate space of ground above- 

 mentioned, and made up into bundles as the former. 



The female Hemp should remain growing till the seed is fully 

 ripe, It may probably be the first or second week in October be- 

 fore the female plant should be pulled. It should then be carefully 

 pulled, to avoid shedding the seed, and bound in small bundles, and 

 set to dry with the root ends downwards. Taylor's Instructions. 



About the beginning of August the Hemp-stalks which do not 



bear 



