Archive image from page 426 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 HEMP HEMP 379 acre to cut by machinery and three dollars per acre to cut by hand. After the hemp is cut, it is spread evenly over the ground, the butts being placed down the hill if there is a slope. The stalks are placed in par- allel lines. In about one week it is sufficiently dry to rake up into small bundles. These bundles are tied with small stalks of hemp and are placed in shoc
Archive image from page 426 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 HEMP HEMP 379 acre to cut by machinery and three dollars per acre to cut by hand. After the hemp is cut, it is spread evenly over the ground, the butts being placed down the hill if there is a slope. The stalks are placed in par- allel lines. In about one week it is sufficiently dry to rake up into small bundles. These bundles are tied with small stalks of hemp and are placed in shocks (Fig. 569) or stacks (Fig. 570). The Ken- tucky Experiment Station has shown that it pays to stack the hemp, as the loss of fiber is not so great and the quality is much improved. Stacked hemp rets more evenly and makes a much better fiber than when shocked. In the latter case, too much of the outer layer sunburns and over-rets. The shocks are liable to blow down, greatly to the damage of the crop. The shocked hemp, however, is much less expensive to handle and can be spread out at different periods, so that the quantity retted at one time can be controlled. If the hemp is allowed to remain on the ground too long after cutting, it will sunburn and the quality will be destroyed. It requires considerable judgment to stack hemp to avoid the sunburn. Care should be taken not to stack it before it is sufficiently dry, as it will heat in the stack with much injury to the quality. Retting.—About the middle of November or the first of December, the hemp is taken from the stack and spread over the ground as before stack- ing, to ret, a process which separates or liberates the bast. If the weather conditions are favorable, it will ret in about two months sufficiently to break. Ideal weather conditions for retting are alternate freezing and thawing, with an occasional snow that does not remain long on the ground. Early and late retting are not so good as winter retting; and hemp rett
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