The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-04-25

The weather being warm are spread upon grass lands for
the purpose Operating IN .h's way Tor three or
four successive seasons, and Jsqulng The operators 10
change their damp clothes Immediately alter empning The
pool. no Of sickness ever occurred IN family OF
between forty and nifty that was supposed 10 owe
lis origin to any OF the details OF the process OF water
When the medullary exadations. uniting the hbres Of
the hemp plant, have been extracted by immersion, the
bark is detached from the woody part OF the plant, and
contracts 80 as burst and show the wood somehn
hroug hou the whole length OF the stalk In this stage
being removed from the pool and dred-n IS eaey ior
the brake.
Among the many machines for separating The wood
from the lint think the best yet seen IN Kentucky con
ssts Of cusheT composed OF several consecutive pairs
OF hued rollers driven by steam or animal power using
the hand brake, and usng addition no scuiching appa
other Than small iron kne and even with these
aids good operator will be unable TO prepare more man
fifty 10 sixty pounds per day
fhe only way il appears to me, in which the process
OF water olling hemp be made TO work ilseif INTO
favor and become regular employment WIN Inc htnP
grower will be for the consumer 10 tempt MN INTO he
practice by paying for time in this market me prices
which rule in The Atlantic cities. Receiving thus bonus
OF some forty dollars and certain market, many would
be induced 10 upon the business; and praclice
would, doubt, by famiarzing the producer with the
details OF PREPARATION, and by suggesting improvements
SO far cheaper the cost OF production as TO overcome IN
great degree the reluctance the hempiarme now mani
tests Tor this mode OF preparation
There are two classes OF persons who should abstain
from walerTolng hempthose sanguine ones who think
greatly their income by operating IN this high
priced article, and those who cultivate to extent win
grains and other mixed crops requiring much labor IN
spring The first class Of PERSONS II experienced IN the
dewrotng process, will find in this case as IN most
Others thai il labor which npas value TO the products
OF agriculture. and that they gain nothing by doubling
the price OF staple when they cannot produce hall the
quantity The mixed farmer, too, will find fall and spring
the only favorable periods for mmersng his plants
times when the sowing and planting OF his crops so far
engross his time and labor TO render very nconve.
nient the filling and emptying OF the pools;
WHITE -RoTTIKG In practice the details OF this pro-
cess vary but slightly from those OF dew-rottng. Hemp
intended 10 be prepared in this way permitted to stand
entire year the stack, and is afierward about the
first OF December, spread upon grass lands
1t is quite msnomer to call this process "snow-rot.
ting" Under circumstances will the plants, spread
to rot during The winner following their growth become
ready for the brake without exhibiting on the fibre a
greater or lesser number of dark boches CONTINUOUSLY
communicated from the decompong elements of the un-
DERIVING WOOD We must, therefore, impue the beauty
Of color and strength Of fibre peculiar this process
different agency than extreme cold snow 1t is known
that nitrogen. with its strong pedspos'ion to decay is
plaintiffs nicotna. which, when dissolved in the pool
posons the fish, and its volatile alka which causes the
plant 10 emit so strong an odo II is also known that,
when these extracted by immeTsing the plants in
wafer. the cambiose matter uniting the fbres OF the bark
is decomposed before the slightest decay takes place in
the woody part OF the plant-lhe, woody part being
white, tough, and elastic like willow rod "a property
in the stalk which renders the breaking labor ardu
ous) whilst in the rolting process, before the de-
achment OF the ibres is effected, some OF the elements
composing the fluids of circulation have been changed
in their combination, and thus seem to have formed an
acid which has, in greater less degrees, botched the
woody part with dark spots, every part OF which Will
stain the lint White rong avoids this botching OF the
wood and bark. mainly think, by Kidding the plant OF
most of It's elements predisposed TO decay, through the
gency OF hea--us the same ends accomplished
by water when The plants immersed
That heat has the power 10 expel these clements or TO
render them harmless by causing combinations, will
appear from considering fact familiar TO all experienced
hempgrowers, which this: il often happens that a
bundle OF hemp spread down The autumn after the plants
were grown will be taken up in January with the top
portion OF the plants, which occupied the centre of the
stack when in bulk, OF bright buff color. whilst the
lower portions OF the plants the bundle dar
coloIed and ready for the brake. Now il these bright
portions be cut off from the other parts OF the bundle
and exposed again 10 the rains and ross, in time ROT
effected, aud article closely resembling water roed
hemp produced In this there is not the remoes
doubt that the character of the bright portions of such
bundles has been changed by the great heat generated
the stack by bnlkng the bundles while the leaves
yet too damp. So IL is with hemp. think kept in bulk
more than ore year, Time sets free large portion oil
what is volatile, and the heat generated, whilst the
is going through sweat and subIimes changes much
OF what remains Certain IL is that the market value
this article is greatly above that Of dew roted hemp and
it remains TO be determined whether management could
not be devised increasing still more this value
This process is attended in practice with but one Sc
rous ohlecton which that the additional time required
10 delach The hbfes from the wood, IN consequence OF
the ndesucibliiy resulting from its changed character
often brings round the spring OF The year before is ready
for the brake-in which event II becomes necessary 10
stack over and brake the following winter for not only
would breaking at that interfere with the growing
crop, bu, i, is itself, without dry house. almost work
| of impossbilily When the mean temperature OF the
day above the temperature OF the earth, the
dew falls freely that every day is like rainy day in
L. YOUNG
| LOUISVILLE, (Ky.,) January, 1851.