| Show ti ibal FLAX nax LAX AND HEMP flemr br A mcmaster has bag verbally ay tarnished farni shed us with his views upon pulling p and rotting flax I 1 and 1 hemp substantially as follows pull flax 13 as 13 is soon as the pods are brown knock the soil from the roots keep the stems even and bind hem them in small sheaves put the sheaves into a pool or tank where water can be let in to cover rover them and to which there is an outlet so that they be constantly kept under running ggaer water the sooner the sheaves i are pu put t into the die pool cool th e where they are areto to remain abolia I 1 twelve days or until upon bre breaking akino a stem near its root loot the lint can ran be e easily separated the whole length v when it sufficiently cieli cleil hemp is rotted in the same way as lax flax but has to remain in the water about two week weeks the proper len ien length lenth 0 th of time being also determined by bv the free stripping Z 0 of i f its lint hemp is to to be pulled when its ita stalks begin bein be in to turn brown the male turning about three weeks earlier than the female the hemp when pulled should be laid in hand fulls one across another so as to be easily lifted for beating out ort olt the seed which should all be carefully saved from cromb i lmh oth flax dax and hemp after the seed sped is saved tha th stalks can be put in small bundles for rotting through want of the proper machinery for breaking each stalk of hemp must be broken at the root and the lint stripped by hand band |
