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Ä Area: FidoNet - Marijuana Chat ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Msg#: 1692 Date: 06-09-93 22:26
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From: Northcoast OH NORML Read: Yes Replied: No
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To: All Mark:
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Subj: Fairbanks Comp. #8
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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[...continued from previous posting]
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[From the Sandy-Hill Herald.]
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CULTURE OF HEMP.
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Hemp designed for the seed, to produce the best crops should be planted in
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drills, three feet apart, so as to give an opportunity of running a plough or
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corn cultivator between the rows.
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The plants should stand about eight inches apart. It is in ordinary
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seasons, considered the best time to plant between the 15th of May and the
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middle of June. The hemp should be kept free from grass or weeds, in the same
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manner as corn; although it will not require as much hoeing, unless the ground
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should be very foul. Hemp when sown broadcast for the lint, directly rises
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above the weeds and so shades and covers the ground as to prevent the growth of
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any thing else.
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As to the time of harvesting the hemp planted for the seed no precise rule
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can be given, it must depend much upon the judgment. The seed comes to
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maturity very unequally -- so that you will find the seed ripe on the lower
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branches and the lower part of each branch when the top may be in the blow. it
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should be cut at that time which will secure the greatest quantity of ripe
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seed. As a general rule, however, it should not stand so long to ripen the
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latest, that the earliest will begin to fall -- fir if it be suffered to stand
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until all or the greatest portion of the seed is ripened, or tuned a dark
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brown, you will lose more in gathering, than is lost by the light and imperfect
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seed when cut earlier. It should be carefully cut with a sickle or hemp hook
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made for the purpose, great care should be taken not to shell the seed in
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cutting and securing it.
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It will well pay for the additional labor to give it a light threshing when
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it is first cut and before it is bound -- for this purpose a canvass of about
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three or four yards square should be taken into the field and the hemp within a
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convenient distance, as it is cut, should be carried to it, and lightly beat
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with a wythe or small pole, so as to dislodge all the loose seed, which would
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be exposed to shell and waste in handling or moving. it may then be bound in
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small bundles of 8 or 9 inches in diameter and set up in stooks to dry. At
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this time it would be advisable to move the hemp, where it was designed to
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thresh and secure it, as it could then be done with less waste than after it
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had become dried -- when it has stood in the stook a sufficient time to cure
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and perfect the unripened seed, it should again be threshed or beat out either
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on the canvass as before or on a bed upon the ground (as buck wheat is
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threshed) or it may be threshed on the barn floor, but as it is a very soft
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seed it is exposed to much injury upon the floor.
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It will be found very little labor to thresh out the seed, and the greatest
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care is necessary to prevent it from shelling and waste, in cutting and
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securing it -- hence the plan of double threshing is thought on the whole to be
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the most economical. A wythe or small pole is the best instrument to beat out
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the see, -- The seed should not be put together in large quantities, but
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requires to be spread and exposed to the air until it is thoroughly dried else
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it will heat and spoil.
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Hemp sown broad cast and designed for the lint, if the object be to secure
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the best crop without regard to the seed, should be cut about the time the seed
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begins to ripen, most of it is then in the blow: to look through a field of
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hemp at this time, in the sun shine, the stalk exhibits a transparent
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appearance; by cutting at this time, the male hemp is preserved in a perfect
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state, and becomes injured if suffered to stand until the seed is ripened. But
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as long as seed shall be valuable as it has been heretofore, the crop is
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considered the most profitable to cut it when about one half of the seed
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becomes ripened, in this way you will save a considerable portion of the male
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hemp (which bears no seed.) And the lint of the female hemp, nearly in
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perfection, and secure from 8 to 10 bushels of seed to the acre. Hemp sown for
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the lint should be cut with a strong cradle made for the purpose.
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Some of the hemp growers in Dutches County use an instrument they call a
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hemp hook, with which they cut it rather closer to the ground, unless the land
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be very smooth, than they can with the cradle, but with much less expedition.
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After cradling it should be exposed to one days sun in the swath and then
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bound in small bundles and put together in stooks of about 10 or 12 bundles
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well secured at the top with bands, and suffered to remain so long only, as
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will be sufficient to cure and dry the hemp and perfect the seed, when it
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should be threshed and secured from exposure to the weather, which soon
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blackens the coat and injures its value in the market.
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-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-
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WATER ROTTING. -- Extract of a letter from Mr. Naman
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Goodsell to Mr. Samuel Swartwout, April 1823, taken
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from the American Farmer. vol. 5.
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"I am prepared to show that water rotting, in all cases where it can be
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done, is, most unquestionably, to be preferred. 1st. It is more durable for
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all the purposes to which it is applied -- a fact perfectly well known to those
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who manufacture sack and cordage. 2dly, it is more easily bleached; and 3dly,
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it will yield a greater quantity of fibre from a given quantity of the plant.
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My own experiments with respect to the superior durability of water prepared
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flax, were very satisfactory. I placed on the ground a quantity of flax that
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had been sufficiently water rotted for dressing, by the side of an equal
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quantity of unrotted flax, and turned them once in three days, until the new
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flax was sufficiently rotted for dressing, also; and upon examination, I found
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that which had been previously water rotted, had lost none of its strength, and
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that it had not altered in any respect, except in its color, which was a little
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brighter than when laid out; both parcels were now suffered to remain upon the
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ground, until the dew-rotted became worthless, when the water rotted was found
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to be still strong and good.
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"I repeated these experiments with dressed flax, and with the plant, and
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found the result the same. This, in my mind, fully established the very
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important fact, that water rotted flax or hemp is infinitely superior to that
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which is dew-rotted.
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"I made an attempt next to ascertain the proportionate loss in weight, in
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each process of rotting, and found them both nearly equal, viz; about
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twenty-five per cent; but I found, at the same time, that the produce of this
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equal quantity of plant differed materially in weight. When it came to be
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dressed, the dew or land rotted averaged from 12 to 16 pounds of fibre only,
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whilst the water prepared gave from 16 to 25 per cent. The difference in
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weight, I consider to be quite sufficient to defray the extra expense of water
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rotting, whilst the value of the article would be enhanced one third more. My
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strong desire to investigate this subject fully induced me to make other
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trials, by boiling and steaming, in order to avoid the rotting process
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altogether, but I did not succeed in any of them sufficiently to warrant their
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recommendation to the public. On the contrary, I became convinced that neither
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would answer.
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-!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-
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[FROM THE ST. ALBANS REPERTORY FEB. 26.]
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We have just had a conversation with an intelligent farmer from Washington
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county, N. Y. upon the subject of growing Hemp. He says that he sowed upon
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wet, marshy land,nine acres to hemp; but owing to the extreme wetness of the
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season, but five acres of it was considered worth preserving. He sold the lint
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or stalk of the five acres, in the stack, for $160, and saved 75 bushels of
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seed, for which he has refused $300. He further says, that the labor bestowed
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upon the land was but a trifle more than would have been required for Indian
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corn. He intends sowing twenty acres the next season.
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By the following extract of a letter from an intelligent farmer of
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Springfield Mass. to a gentleman in Washington County, N. Y. on the subject of
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the culture, cleaning and price of hemp, it will be seen by this branch of
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agriculture has already become systematized in that section of the country:
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"As to the present price of Hemp, I can only say, that the Connecticut
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Company, who own and carry on one of Hines & Bain's machines for cleaning hemp
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and flax, at Long-Meadow, pay us at the rate of twelve dollars per ton for the
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stem from the field, when thoroughly dried. They hire it stem-rotted at about
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three dollars per ton. As to the labor and cost of growing a crop, it may be
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reckoned at something like that of a crop of oats or spring wheat. Our lands
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produce from two to four tons of stem per acre; thus affording us not only a
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living but liberal profit. The seed saved from the lint will pay all expenses
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of tilling the land, harvesting and transporting the crop -- say if within ten
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or fifteen miles of the machine. Seed is now high, but the present price
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cannot be relied on, as the country will be supplied. -- Hemp seed, however, is
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worth as much for OIL as flax seed."
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[Continued on next posting...]
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Help Fight Back - Support Your Local NORML Chapter!
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Northcoast Ohio NORML Chapter
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Contact: John Hartman
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Phone: +[1]-216-521-WEED
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