236 



ON HEMP. 



In 1787, it sold as high as nine shillings. The expence of braking 

 is from one shilling to one shilling and sixpence per stone. 



Rev. Mr. Mills in Suffolk Report. 



PEELING. 



The method of peeling Hemp, is so simple, that a description 

 of it would be needless. Even children, and the aged and infirm, 

 may perform it with ease, by only taking one stalk after another, 

 breaking the reed, and slipping off the bark. This may, likewise, 

 become the work of every person belonging to the farm in winter 

 evenings, and at such times as the weather will not admit of their 

 working without doors. It must, however, be allowed, that there 

 are some inconveniences attending this method. The peeled Hemp 

 comes off in ribbands, which does not answer in the heckling, so 

 well as that which has been broken. More of the useless membranes, 

 especially towards the root, still adhere to it, and, by increasing its 

 weight, render it (to use the common saying on this occasion), 

 better for the seller than for the buyer : besides which, the Hemp 

 does not always peel off in equal lengths; and from thence arise 

 considerable disadvantages and loss in its future dressings. 



Mills 's Husbandly. 



Those who, have time and patience enough for peeling * the 



Hemp, 



* We are of opinion, that one ought only to peel the large stalks of Hemp* 

 which could not be braked without too much difficulty and trouble. 



