. The botany of crop plants; a text and reference book. Botany, Economic. 278 BOTANY OF CROP PLANTS Varieties. Nearly all hemp grown in this country is of Chinese origin, 'i'he Japanese hemp is identical, or very similar, to Chinese hemp. European varieties (Piedmont, Neapolitan, Hungarian, and Russian), often termed Smyrna types, dififer from the Chinese and Japanese ones in that the plants are shorter, the growth is more compact, the seeds are in denser clusters and earlier in maturing. 'J'he best Cjuality of hemp liber comes from Fig. Cutting hemp, Kentucky. {From Essenlials o
. The botany of crop plants; a text and reference book. Botany, Economic. 278 BOTANY OF CROP PLANTS Varieties. Nearly all hemp grown in this country is of Chinese origin, 'i'he Japanese hemp is identical, or very similar, to Chinese hemp. European varieties (Piedmont, Neapolitan, Hungarian, and Russian), often termed Smyrna types, dififer from the Chinese and Japanese ones in that the plants are shorter, the growth is more compact, the seeds are in denser clusters and earlier in maturing. 'J'he best Cjuality of hemp liber comes from Fig. Cutting hemp, Kentucky. {From Essenlials of Geography, Second Book. Copyriglil, 1916, by Albert Perry Brighain a>id Charles T. McFarlaiir. American Book Company, Publishers.) The Hemp Industry in the United States.— Since about the year 1906, there has been a slight decline in the domestic production of hemp. This falling off has been due to the difliculty of obtaining laborers to do the work of retting, breaking, and preparing the liber for the market; to the lack of development of labor-saving machinery; to the fact that greater profits are derived from raising other crops in hemp-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robbins, Wilfred William, 1884-1952. Philadelphia, P. Blakiston
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