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^yp, and set up loose in stacks about the size of 
corn-top stalks in the field, and when sufficiently 
dry, which will soon be the case, you may proceed 
to break it through the coarse break, which is car¬ 
ried from stack to stack for that purpose, and the 
hemp, thus rough broke, is carefully carried in each 
evening and laid away in the barn till you proceed 
to break it over in the fine break, 'and dress it for 
market. 1 he coarse break is made in the form of 
the common fiax breaks, about 4 feet 4 inches long, 
the slats are placed 7 inches a part in the back and 
5 in the front, and the common fiax break will an¬ 
swer for the second operation. With re^^ect to 
the method of cdearing the hemp of the shives, that 
is performed with a wooden knife, similar tQ that 
used for clearing of flax, but the shives are rather 
shook out with the point, of the knive than by strik¬ 
ing it hard, as that would tend to waste the hempj 
and not expedite the business. After it is properly 
cleared of the shives, and rolled up in handfulls^ 
like dressed flax, the loose ends are laid together 
in bundles from 50 to 100 weight, and then well 
bound round in three or four places with strong 
cords made of the hemp tow, and so sent olf to mar¬ 
ket. The produce of an acre of land is estimated 
at from 4 to 600 weight; and good land, completeh^ 
cleared, may be put out for one half of the crop^ 
prepared for market, for the use of the land, which 
will often neat a profit of from 15 to 20 dollars the 
acre. Our lands appear inexhaustible ; some have 
been in constant use upwards of 20 years^ and yet 
