ON HEMP. 



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After the plant is pulled and bound, it should, if possible, be 

 worked while green; the Hemp thus produced being much finer than 

 that which is previously dried. The reason of this is, that the 

 plant contains a great quantity of glutinous matter, which being 

 once dried, agglutinates the fibres in such a manner, that they can 

 never afterwards be perfectly separated. The Female [read Male] 

 Hemp, however, is always in smaller quantities than the Male [read 

 Female], and therefore, when the crop is large, it will be impossible 

 to work the whole as fast as it is pulled or CUt. Encyclopedia Britannka. 



Hemp should be watered as soon as possible after being pulled ; 

 because, by drying the mucilage hardens, and requires a more 

 severe operation to develope the bark, than when macerated imme- 

 diately after being pulled, and which must prove injurious to the 

 fibrer i Sinclair. 



BENGAL. 



Hemp-proper — Cannabis saliva. 



When the Hemp flowers, which is in about four months after 

 being sown, the stalks should be pulled up, and exposed a day or 

 two to the sun, and then tied in bundles. 



Mr. Fleming, Gov.-Gen. Cons. 5th May, 180i. 



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