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The Jotlo%\)ing extract from the first volume of the 
Transactions of the American Philosophical So^ 
ciety^ “ on the raising and dressing of hempp by 
Edivard Antil^ Esquire^ is added as a proper sup- 
plement to the Communication of William Thomp- 
^oUy on the same subject-—page 120. 
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V V HOEVER would raise hemp properly 
and to advantage, should set aside two pieces of 
ground, of such dimensions each as he shall be able 
to cultivate every year, and sow the one whilst he is 
manuring and preparing the other for the succeeding 
year’s crop ; the higher and dryer the ground the 
better, provided it be well dunged and made strong 
and mellow; the ground should not be too sloping^ 
least the good soil be v/ashed away with hard rains; 
if it droops toward the south, so that it may have 
the full influence of the sun, it will be an advan¬ 
tage ; low, rich, warm, dry grounds will also pro¬ 
duce good hemp; but wet land, though never so 
rich, will by no means do. The ground being 
prepared and made very mellow, I now come to 
that part which must be particularly and exactly 
attended to, since the success of the crop greatly 
depends upon it. Sometime in May, the ground 
being moist and in a vegetating state, but by no 
means wet, it must be well ploughed, the furrows 
close and even, the soil lying light and mellow, it 
must be sowed very even, with two bushels of seed 
upon one acre; a man with an iron tooth harrow 
follows the sower, and harrows in the seed with 
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