ON HEMP. 



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When the Hemp is retted enough, they load it on slades, and 

 carry it for grassing to an eaten eddish, which it improves much, 

 great grass succeeding it : nor does it taint the grass, so as to make 

 cattle refuse it. After a shower it is turned, and left for three 

 weeks, when it is turned again. If the femble quit the bun easily, 

 it is ready to lift : it is then to be tied in bundles, and carried to a 

 barn, taking great care to see that it is quite dry. 



At Haxey. — After watering, spread it for three weeks or a 

 month on stubbles, till the bast clears easily from the bun. Turn it 

 once or twice ; and when dry, bind it in beats, and carry it home 

 and stack it. 



After the Hemp left for seed has been watered, do not spread 

 it, but set it up in little stooks to dry ; then stack it to be ready to 

 break and dress in the spring. It is not so good, but it sells as well 

 as the other. This is yellow Hemp, that makes sacking and sail- 

 cloth ; the other is applied to linen. Lincoln Report. 



After watering, the Hemp is set up again on its root-ends 

 against the wall, and there spread out and turned towards the sun 

 until it is dry, AVhen it is perfectly dried, it is housed, either in 

 barns, or in such situations as that it may be exposed, as much, as 

 possible; to a wind : but it must be preserved from the least degree 

 of dampness, either from without or within ; for whatever becomes 

 wet or damp, will be found to rot, and to infect and injure all around 

 it, and the more so the longer it remains undiscovered. 



Some rain is desirable during the time it remains spread out 



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