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two horses without any balks, for the less the 
ground be trampled the better ; if harrowing one 
way be not sufficient to cover the seed, though it 
Would be best if that could be done, it must be 
cross harrowed. The ground being moist, as I 
said before, but by no means wet so as to clod, 
which would ruin the crop, the seed will all start 
and come up together, which is a sure sign of a 
good crop, and nothing after that, but too much 
wet, will hurt it j for hemp, thus come up, bids 
defiance to weeds and grass of every kind 5 its 
growth is so quick, and it so effectually shades the 
ground, that nothing below can rise or shew 
head, and it so preserves all the moisture below, 
that the hotter and dryer the weather the faster it 
grows. Whereas if the seed be sown, when the 
ground is dry, the seed that lies deepest where the 
moisture is, will come up first, and these will 
shade and starve those that come after, bv which 
means the first comers will be too large, and the 
last will be much too small, so that the crop will 
be greatly damaged every way : So much depends 
upon this one circumstance, of sowing the seed 
when the ground is moist and fit to receive it : 
The crop, thus rightly managed, will stand as thick 
as very good wheat, and be from four to six feet 
high, according to the strength of the ground, and 
the stems will not be thicker than a good wheat 
straw; by this means the hemp will be the finer, 
it will yield the greater quantity, and it may be 
plucked from the ground like flax, which will be a 
very great saving : But if it be sowed tliin, that is^ 
