THE Commercial and Agricultural Magazine.

N». XXXV.) JUNE, 1802.[VoL. VL

In our Magazine of February laſt, we inſerted ſome papers ſhowing the im- menſe Conſumption in England of Hemp from the Baltic, the great im- portance of encouraging its Culture in our Canadian Settlements, and the premiums offered by the Society of Arts,&c. in London for that purpoſe», anxious to promote the true intereſts of the Britiſh Empire, we are happy to lay before the Public, a copy from a paper preſented only a few days ago to the Lords of his Majeſty's Committee of Council for Trade and Foreign Planta- tions, by Mr. John Taylor, whoſe uſeful Communications on Sugar from the Beet Root, and a Subftitute for Coffee from the Chicoree Plant, we have given in our former Numbers. The preſent Paper not only gives a clear Account of the Culture and Preparation of Hemp as it ſhould now be con- duêted in Canada; but furniſhes!ſuch information on the ſubje& as will be ſerviceable to Farmers in Great Britain and Ireland.

An elegant ENGRAVING îs annexed, to explain the Preparation of HEMP ſubſe- quent to its Culture\

ON THE CULTURE AND PREPARATION OF HEMPINCANADA 5 ADDRESSED TO THE LORDS OF HIs-MAJESTY’sS COM- MITTEE OF COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND FOREIGN PLAN-=- TATTONS:

My Lords,

4 BE importance of this ſubje has been ſo fully certified in a letter preſented to your Lordſhips by my father in January laſt, ſtating, amongſt other obſervations, that upwards of 30,000 tons of Hemp are annually imported into England, that I ſhall not enter into thoſe particulars. I ſhall therefore now obſerve, that as it does not come properly within the views of the Society of: Arts, &c. to furniſh inſtru&äions and give opinions upon general cul- ture, but rather to publiſh the experiments of others, and leave deduétions to be drawn from fads; yet as the people of Canada have repeatediy applied to this country for information upon the mode of cultivating Hemp to advantage; and having, as A member of the Society, attended yarious diſcuſſions upon the ſubje&, 1 have been led to examine the whole culture and prepa- ration of Hemp in different countries, and am induced to lay before your Lordſhips ſuch information and ſhort inſtructions as I think will be conducive to eſtabliſh this great obje in Canada, and have arranged the whole under diſtin heads as the opera=- tions follow in ſuccefſlion, i

ON THE CULTURE OF THE HEMP, ANDCHOICEOFTHESEFED-,

THE(oil for Hemp ſhould‘be rich, deep, light, and mode- rately dry, of this deſcription much can be found on the banks of the creeks and rivers in Canada; if the ground has not had à pre-

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