Hemp
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An encyclopedia article on hemp from Rees's Cyclopedia (vol. XVII), covering the plant's cultivation and preparation as a fibre crop. It treats soil, seed, sowing, pulling, seed harvesting, dew-retting and water-retting (including Bralle's soap-steeping method and Rainbeard's pit), then breaking, scutching, beetling and heckling. It closes with yields, prices, bounties, the case for expanding British hemp growing, and a note on ancient knowledge of hemp.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1819
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
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