Instructions for the Cultivating and Raising of Flax and Hemp
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A practical treatise on growing and preparing flax and hemp, first printed at Dublin in 1724 and reprinted at Boston in 1735 for New England readers. Lionel Slator, a flax and hemp dresser in County Cavan, covers soil choice, plowing, seed, sowing and rolling, weeding, rippling, stacking, rating (retting) in water, grassing, breaking, swingling and hackling, and hemp culture. A prefatory letter signed T. Coote, addressed to the Trustees of the Flaxen and Hempen Manufactures of Ireland, introduces the work.
- Type
- Monograph
- Date
- 1724
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 28
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