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siarrow ridges or borders, is that, when the cajrle 
he hemp' is ripe, and has shed its farina on the hm- 
ble or feniaie hemp, by which the seed is irapreg«» 
Slated, and the leaves of the carle hemp fall off and 
the stem grows yellow, you may easily step in 
the skies, and pull up the carle hemp without 
hujiuing the female,, which now begins to branch 
out, and kx)ks of a deep green colour and very flou¬ 
rishing, and when the seeds begin to ripen,, which 
is. known; by their iaHing out of their sockets,, you 
may all along both sides bend down the phuats and 
sh ke out the seed upon a cloth laid on the ground, 
for as they ripen they scatter upon being shaken by 
9 hard wdnd, o-r otherwise; then it must be watch- 
edy and the fowls and yellow birds kept li*om it,, fat> 
they are inmiaderately foiid of the seed ; as the first 
ripe seeds are the fullest and best, they are worthy 
of some pains to save them ; and the best way to do, 
that is^ tO' bend down the plants all along, on each 
islde of the border or ridge, as is said above, and 
shake them over a cloth spread on the ground to 
receive the seed ; if one side of the plant be rooted 
out of the ground by forcing it down to shake out 
the seed, there will be no damage, for the seed that 
remains w*iil ripen notwithstanding ; and the plant 
must thus be shaken every two or three days,, ’till all 
the seed be ripe and tlms saved and this is much 
better than pulling up the plants by the roots, and 
shaking them on a barn floor, and then setting them 
up against a fence, or the side of the barn, for the 
seed to ripen, and shaking them morning and even¬ 
ing on the barufloor ^ for by this: method,, which is 
