Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1823-03-29

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Of the policy to make itpass.
Boz if a more correct, more speedy,
ard more certain meats of relief can be
devised. the people will rise from their
disuesses with renewed opposition 10
slavery. The cultivation OF fax and
hemp can be pursaedihy every farmer:
bot it requires considerable and combin-
ed exertion 10 turn a whole people to
new branch Of iodusgry. In new set
clement Ire difficulties attending the pro-
curing of seed wiIf frequently produce
delay OF years in raising anv article; and
in Illinois il is more peculiarly the case
al present with these should be Staples OF
our country. know hundreds ininy own
section oflhe sta! cwho would immediate
" in good earnest engage ID the culture OF
hemp, If they knew where to purchase
the seed. Hemp dressed sufficiently for
the making of cord4ge will here bring
six dollars for a hundred pounds. Good
hemp, il is believed, will yield on an
average a thousand pounds per acre; at
which rate the raising, roitinF, and dress
ing OF FIVE acres will bring in three hun
dred dollars. For this article there is
always a steady market, and the mil
lions Of dollars which have heretofore
been expended in foreign countries for
this article, will turn their course to the
westward as soon as asufficient supply
can be obtained.
The value of land and improvements
will always be estimated by the value of
the produce, and il a field Which now
raises corn or wheat 10 the amount Often
dollars per acre can be made to yield by
hemp SIN times as much, the price Of
the field will increase accordingly. That
this can be done have no doubt but
that tins soon will be done unless com
bination of influential men will engage
in The cause, is very improbable. Any
farmer in Illinois will raise two acres OF
hemp without materially interfering with
his other b,;iness, as it would be sowed
before the time for corn came OH, and
could be cut and rotted and dressed when
other work was not pressing.
Suppose then, 5000 farmers each TO
raise two acres Of hemp, which might
avarsge ten hundred pounds per acre.
AT six cents perpound II is would amount
to the great sum of six hundred thou
sand dollars in silver and that this sum
can be annually brought into Illinois, I
firmly believe. But take another calcu-
lation. BY Dey's hemp machine, the
plant can be dressed without rotting, a,
very low rate. The rotting aud dress
ing in the common mode form the great
est objection to cultivaling hemp. Mora
ly sowing, cutting down, and carving to
the machinc,, would not take more than
one third Of the labor, and more dressed
hemp would be received. Hence far
mer could more easl, Cord to raise six
acres af hemp, if the ma, hine were here
to ali bin. The value Of the whole az
this estimate would be one million and
efRht hundred thousand dollars.
The season for sowing hemp and fax
is new at hand. Let every farmer there
fore endeasor TO obtain as much seed as
vii be sufficient TO raise the requisite
quantity for him to begin with the ensu-
ing year. Some OF Dcy's machines will
be on next fall, or early in the spring Of
1924. A general cultivation Of The plan,
rnay then be begun with the assurance
oil great and certain profit.
Those persons who have seed for sale
or know where it Can be obtained in this
state, will confer benefit on the public
by giving immediate intelligence through
the medium oflhe public newspapers.
A FARMER.