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HEMP, 



DRYING AFTER WATERING, 



When the Hemp is sufficiently rotted, it is taken out of the 

 water and dried, to effect which, there have been various contrivances. 



Chambers's Dictionary. 



The grassing requires about five weeks ; and if there are 

 showers, it must be turned thrice a week ; if not, twice will do. 

 This is always performed on grass-land or layers. It is done by 

 women : the expence is ten shillings per acre. It is then tied up in 

 large bundles of eight or ten baits, and carted home to a barn or 

 house to be braked directly. Suffolk Report. 



After watering, the Hemp is taken out and carried to a field of 

 ■aftermath, or any other grass that is clean and free from cattle. 

 The bundles being untied, it is spread out thin, stalk by stalk. In 

 this state it must be turned every other day, especially in moist 

 weather, lest the worms should injure it. It remains thus for six 

 weeks or more, when it is gathered together, tied in large bundles, 

 and kept dry in a house till December or January. It might do as 

 well stacked, if kept perfectly dry. Rev. Mr. Mills, in Suffolk Report. 



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