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to be the same in these as in other countries, and the difference to 

 consist only in the degree to which the cleaning is carried, a parti- 

 cular description of this operation seems to be superfluous. It may 

 not, however, be unnecessary to observe on this head, that, in case 

 the steeping and subsequent drying is found not to have sufficient- 

 ly answered its purposes, viz. that of softening the harle, and rot- 

 ting the rind to such a degree, as that they may be separated, 

 and the former cleared from the latter, without injuring the 

 harle, recourse is had to a further drying in a room heated by an 

 oven or stove; and every peasant, in the practice of cultivating 

 Hemp, fits up a small room, detached from his dwelling-house, for 

 that particular purpose. Bump. 



Breaking is done by the stone at one shilling. There are many 

 people in the district that do it, and earn fifteen or sixteen pence a 

 day, and beer. The offal is called Hemp-sheaves, which makes 

 good fuel, and sells at two-pence per stone. Suffolk Report. 



When the Hemp is retted, it is bound up in sheaves or large 

 bunches; and, with a machine called a brake, the cambuck is 

 broken in pieces, and with a swingle is cleared from the small 

 remaining pieces of the cambuck, and then bound up in stones. 

 In Suffolk fourteen pounds and a half of Hemp are deemed a stone. 

 The Hemp which breaks off in the operation is called shorts : 

 this is bound up by itself, and is about half the value of the long 

 Hemp. 



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