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ON HEMP. 



The Hemp having been properly watered and cleansed, set it 

 upon the dry earth upright, that the water may drain from it 1 : 

 which done, rear it up either against hedges, pales, walls, back- 

 sides of houses, or such-like, where it may have the full strength or 

 reflection of the sun ; and being thoroughly dried, then house it. 



England's Improvement. 



Abroad, I am told, they have a kind of oven built on purpose 

 for drying Hemp : but here the planters content themselves with 

 erecting a kind of scaffold, covered with, hurdles, over which they 

 spread their watered Hemp to a moderate thinness, and then 

 kindling a slow turf or peat fire underneath, they keep turning the 

 Hemp till it is sufficiently dry; after which they preserve it by 

 Stacking till it is threshed. Complete English Farmer. 



When the Hemp is taken out of the water, the bundles of it 

 should be untied, and set upright against a sunny wall, or on the 

 bank of a ditch, or it may be spread out in any dry part of a field. 

 Care must be taken to turn it from time to time ; and when the 

 Hemp is thoroughly dry, it is bundled up again, and carried home,, 

 where it should be kept in a very dry place,, till it is wanted for 

 peeling or braking. 



The Hemp that is to be broken should first be rendered very 

 dry. For this purpose, the Hemp-growers usually have a drying- 

 place at some distance from their houses ; for nothing can be more 

 dangerous than to dry the Hemp in the chimneys of the houses, as 

 is done by the peasants in some places. Some put their Hemp into 



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