On the Cultivation and Preparation of Hemp: As Also, of an Article, Produced in Various Parts of India, Called Sunn, Which, with Proper Encouragement, May be Introduced as a Substitute for Many Uses to which Hemp is at Present Exclusively AppliedCox and Son, 1804 - 221 pages |
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Page 42 - ... the surface, so as to facilitate the penetration, of the air, and the absorption from it of moisture by the soil. This is particularly beneficial in the dryest periods of the year, when, as is not generally known, the atmosphere is saturated with moisture. The seedlings make their appearance in three or four days after the seed has been sown, and in two or three more develop two leaves. The thinning and weeding may then at once be commenced, this being at first carefully done by hand, for the...
Page 38 - requires twenty-five three-horse loads for an acre : "of dung alone, sixteen are sufficient. This is done directly after wheat sowing is finished. The tillage consists in three earths, with harrowing sufficient to make the soil perfectly fine ; and it is laid flat, with as few furrows as possible. The Rev.
Page 99 - BOARD, a word used to denote, in their collective capacity, certain persons to whom is intrusted the management of some office or department, usually of a public or corporate character. Thus the lords of the treasury and admiralty, the commissioners of customs, the lords of the committee of the privy council for the affairs of trade, &c., are, when met together for the transaction of the business of their respective offices, styled the Board of Treasury, the Board of Admiralty, the Board of Customs,...
Page 145 - H. is hollow, or only filled with a soft pith. This pith is surrounded by a tender, brittle substance, consisting chiefly of cellular tissue, with some woody fibre, which is called the reed, boon, or shove of hemp.
Page 73 - Seeded hemp is not so good by eighteen, pence or two shilhngs the stone. No weeding is ever given to it, the hemp destroying every other plant. It is pulled thirteen or fourteen weeks after sowing ; the wetter the season the longer it stands ; and it bears a dry year better than a wet one ; make no distinction in pulling, between the male and female ; or femble and seed hemp, as denominated in some places. In the Cambridgeshire fens they are...
Page 6 - A,]' are divided as far as the foot-stalks into four, five, or a greater number of narrow segments...
Page 55 - Hemp may be grown, with success, on the same land, many years, by manuring annually. The quantity of seed usually sown, is from nine to twelve pecks per acre; varying with the strength of the soil, and the custom of the country. In those places where the finest and best hemps are grown, twelve pecks is a common quantity. " The soil and season make a very material difference in the produce and quality. An acre will produce from 25 to 60 stone ; an average crop may be estimated about 36 or 38. " Hemp,...
Page 41 - There . There can be no doubt, that the Riotts, if due encouragement were held out to them, would readily adopt the European mode of cultivating the hemp, and also of dressing the fibre for cordage. A native, who had an opportunity of observing the mode of cultivating and preparing the hemp raised by Mr. Douglas at Rishera, has offered to the Board of Trade to contract with them for...
Page 186 - When the hemp is retted,- it is bound up in sheaves or large bunches, and with a machine called a brake, the cambuck is broken in pieces, and with a swingle is cleared from the small remaining pieces of the cambuck, and then bound up in stones. In Suffolk 141 pounds of hemp are deemed a stone.
Page 97 - ... success, on the same land, many years, by manuring annually. The quantity of seed usually sown, is from nine to twelve pecks per acre ; varying with the strength of the soil, and the custom of the country. In those places where the finest and best hemps are grown, twelve pecks is a common quantity. " The soil and season make a very material difference in the produce and quality. An acre will produce from 25 to 60 stone ; an average crop may be estimated about 36 or 38. " Hemp, when left for seed,...