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ferent. When you observe the under leaves upon 
your male hemp begin to turn yellow, and fall 
off, after the period of blossoming is over, divide ofl 
your hemp-field into rows, 4, 5, or 6 feet wide, by 
pulling up the hemp clean, in alleys of 2 feet wide, in 
the intermediate spaces ; bind up the hemp as you pull, 
and carry it out, and set it up to dry, 10, 15, or 20 
bundles in each bunch, and house it as soon as it will 
answer, without heating. You may then go on to pull 
out the male hemp from the female, (which bears the 
seed,) by passing in the alleys, and reaching into the 
rows, and pulling up cacli male stalk separately ; 
bind, and carry out, and stack as before, until you 
have separated the male from the female hemp ; house 
when dry as before. After 10 or 15 days, when the 
burs in your seed-hemp begin to open, and the black 
seeds appear, lose no lime in pulling, binding and 
stacking your hemp, as before; the hemp-birds- will 
become numerous and busy, in quest ot seed ; your 
hemp will shell, and your loss Vrill be great. In bind- 
ing your hemp, select two spires of the shortest of the 
best coated hemp, for bands ; for it you use the short 
undergrowth, which has but a thin coat, your bands 
will fail you in rotting, and your.hemp will sufl’er waste, 
by becoming loose, besides the difficulty, trouble and 
expense of binding over again, your bundles, when 
wet and heavy. When you are ready to put your 
hemp into water, say -about the first of October, 
(which should always be in some river, or brook, 
where the water changes often, and' not in a pond, or 
any stagnant water; this will become foul and |)Uirid, 
and the stench so great, that few persons can be found 
to draw your hemp,) you may thresh oil. the seed with 
a flail, as in (lax, or hold a bundle with one hand 
across a flax, or hemp-brake, and whifi out the seed 
with a hand-statf, upon a tight floor: the seed is va- 
luable for the same purposes as your flax-seed, either 
for the hotne consumption, or a foreigti market. The 
rotting of your hemp is al-^o critical, like your flax. 
