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RULES FOR KNOWING WHEN 
TopuIL —Hemp is fit to puli when the leaves be¬ 
gin to turn yellow and fall off, and the farina to a» 
rise freely from the male stalks. 
To take tip^ ^cohen dried,—li is sufficiently dry to' 
take up, after pulling, when the leaves fall off, the 
stalks rattle and have no appearance of moisture. 
To take up^ njohen %\)atered.—Wht\\ hemp is siif- 
ficiently watered, and becomes dry, the stalks ivarp, 
the outer covering of the stalks becomes blackish, 
the stalks brittle, and the^ filaments readily separate 
from them. 
Manuring. —Hemp ground is manured with 
clover, gypsum and stable dung. Let the land first 
be put in good order and sown with wheat; then 
early next spring while heaving frosts may yet be 
expected, sow on each acre 4, 5 or 6 quarts of clo¬ 
ver seed, and in April about 1 bushel of gypsum, 
this will afford a crop of clover, doubtless, far 
more abundant and profitable for manure, than was 
expected by the original conceiver of the plan.— 
Neither cattle nor the scythe must enter the field 
this season. Next spring, sometime in April, a- 
bout another bushel of gypsum must be put on 
each acre, and if the object is merely manuring, it 
must not be mowed and but little pastured. But 
if the trouble will be taken to mow the clover, and 
feed the hay to stabled and well littered cattle, the 
manure thus produced will more improve the land 
