A Treatise on Hemp, Including a Comprehensive Account of the Best Modes of Cultivation and Preparation as Practised in Europe, Asia, and America: With Observations on the Sunn Plant of India, which May be Introduced as a Substitute for Many of the Purposes to which Hemp is Now Exclusively Applied |
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A Treatise On Hemp, Including a Comprehensive Account of the Best Modes of ... Robert Wissett No preview available - 2018 |
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Abbé Brulles acre bark beating Bengal Board of Trade brake break Cannabis sativa cauny Chambers's Dictionary CHITTAGONG clean colour crop cultivation DACCA dressing dried drying the plant Durno easily Encyclopædia Britannica expence feet female Hemp fimble Flax Fleming flowers forty hours Frushard grain ground half Hamel harrowed Haxey heckle Hemp Sunn Hemp-ground Hemp-seed hundred-weight inches labour laid land leaves Lincolnshire longitudinal fibres M'Donald's Essay MALDA male Hemp manure Marcandier maunds per begah method Mills's Husbandry mode Natives observed operation parcel PATNA peeling ploughed practice preparation produce profit pulled quantity reed remain render Rent requires rind Riotts ripe ripening root-end roots Rupees scutch season seed seers separating the fibre sheaves shillings small bundles soil sowing sown stagnant water stalks standing water steeping stem stone strength sufficiently Suffolk Report Swineshead taken Taylor's Instructions thick three or four threshed Trade Cons washed weather weeds woody
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Page i - The capital employed in agriculture, therefore, not only puts into motion a greater quantity of productive labour than any equal capital employed in manufactures, but, in proportion too to the quantity of productive labour which it employs, it adds a much greater value to the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, to the real wealth and revenue of its inhabitants. Of all the ways in which a capital can be employed, it is by far the most advantageous to the society.
Page 54 - BENARES.—The ground is ploughed over once or twice in the month of June, or at the commencement of the rains, and when it is thus prepared and moist, the farmer watches an opportunity, when he thinks it likely to be fair clear weather for a few days, to put the seed into the ground. If in this he is not disappointed, the young plant will begin to make its appearance in three or four days after the seed has been sown, and it will afterwards require but little attention, as the usual rains, without...
Page 129 - 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 181 - 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 228 - 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 94 - 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 170 - The pond is an old marle pit, with a regular slope from one side (where the hemp is prepared) to the depth of eight feet on the other .side : on the slope above the water, the hemp is built into a square stack, upon a frame of timber, of such a height as will float and bear a man without wetting his feet : this is slid down upon the frame into the water, and when floating, drawn away, a person on the opposite bank drawing the...
Page 31 - ... farmers and cottagers ; but it is very rare to see more than five or six acres in the occupation of any one man. With cottagers, the more common method is, to sow it every year on the same land : there is a piece at Hoxne, which has been under this crop for seventy successive years. The soil preferred, is, what is called in the district, mixed land, that is, sandy loam, moist and putrid, (?) but without being stiff or tenacious; in one word, the best land the country contains; and does well,...
Page 53 - 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 30 - ... best lands, which are rich strong loams ; and on which they are at all possible pains to procure a fine friable surface. For manure they use dung, pieces of rotten cloth, feathers, and horns brought from Dalmatia. The plant, however, may be cultivated upon ground of every kind ; the poorer land producing that which is finer in quality, though in smaller quantity ; whereas strong and rich land produces a great quantity, but coarser. It does not exhaust the land on which it grows, like flax.