n passing between rollers, corrugated for cut the hemp from a tract of about half an acre in a unretted hemp and smooth for retted. The hurds are day. With a sweep-rake reaper under the most favor- then loosened by a rapidly vibrating mechanism, and able conditions from five to seven acres may be… … but nearly all of the hemp now produced in of woven goods. Nearly all of the best grades of long- the United States is dew-retted; that is, spread fiber—"dressed line"—is utilized for making twines and KENTUCKY HEMP, HALF GROWN. in long rows on the ground during the fall yacht cordage, while the…
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