Cultivation Appearing in JAPAN – Marihuana & FLAX
Hemp is raised on valley-lands, that are dug up and flooded the identical as for rice, and the identical kind of fertilizers are used, that’s, rape-seed or fish oil-cake, straw-manure, sea-weed, or liquid manure from closets. The hemp just isn’t sown broadcast as with us, but is planted in March in drills sixteen inches apart. As quickly as the vegetation are effectively up they are hoed, and in addition to the manure labored into the soil earlier to the planting, or 3 times every month liquid manure is applied to the roots of each plant. Between these drills some form of vegetable is grown and thoroughly fertilized. The bottom is completely flooded a number of times by the use of the ever-present irrigating ditches. In August the hemp is pulled, not lower, and is placed within the water-ditches and alternately soaked a couple of days after which dried for a time, till the external coating is thoroughly rotted; it is then overwhelmed on a board or plank platform with a bamboo stick till the fiber is entirely cleaned. Another technique for separating the fiber is by holding a lot of the stems close to their tops with the left hand, (an equal number at each time,) and with the precise hand breaking them short off and stripping the fiber from the stems. This leaves it in hanks of uniform measurement, which is retained by means of the whole process till baled for market. To alleviate the fiber of its glutinous coating is a quite simple process. A skinny piece of bamboo, about three inches huge and a pair of or 3 toes lengthy, is stretched over bridges in a way much like the hairs on a fiddle-bow, in order to render it elastic; this is mounted in a convenient manner a little inclined. The hanks of hemp within the damp state are laid upon this as they are stripped, then another piece of bamboo, curved like a currier’s scraper, is run down over this a number of times till the fiber is fully clean. These hanks are then hung over bamboo rods to dry. It’s then pressed into bales of a hundred kilos each, and sent on pack-horses to market. It’s probably the best hemp grown in the world. The good size, fineness, glossiness, and strength of the staple are unequaled.
I have been unable to establish the common yield of hemp per acre. It is sold very low out there at present, but when the right equipment is invented for working this fiber it can prove a mine of wealth to Japan.
Flax is grown on the same soil as hemp, and manured the same, and ready in like method for market. It is also famous for its excellence. These crops are raised by rotation, that’s, are never grown seasons in succession on the identical ground.
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