Hemp Sentence Examples

Its chief exports are of cotton, hemp, sugar and stone.

The chief agricultural products are timber, fruit, grain, hemp, flax and vegetables.

Flax and hemp showed a decreasing acreage from 1881 onwards.

Tile chief textile plants are hemp, flax and cotton.

Though the fondness of this species for the seeds of flax (Linum) and hemp (Cannabis) has given it its common name in so many European languages,' it feeds largely, if not chiefly in Britain on the seeds of plants of the order Compositae, especially those growing on heaths and commons.

Agriculture is highly developed; cereals, principally wheat and oats, and beetroot are the chief crops; potatoes, flax, hemp, rape and hops are also grown.

Flax is cultivated chiefly in the northern departments of Nord, Seine- Infrieure, Pas-de-Calais, Ctes-du-Nord, hemp in Sarthe, Morbihan and Maine-ct-Loire.

Flax, Hemp, Jute, &c.The preparation and spinning of these materials and the manufacture of nets and rope, together with the weaving of linen and other fabrics, give occupation to 112,000 persons chiefly in the departments of Nord (Lille, Armentires, Dunkirk), Somme (Amiens) and Maine-et-Loire (Angers, Cholet).

There is a lively trade in hemp, hemp-seed oil, hemp goods and cattle, and there are hemp-mills, soap-works and tanneries.

Calbayog has an important export trade in hemp, which is shipped to Manila.

The core is served with a thick coating of wet jute, yarn or hemp (h), forming a soft bed for the sheath, and, to secure immunity from the ravages of submarine boring animals, e.g.

Hemp is largely cultivated in the provinces of Turin, Ferrara, Bologna, Foril, Ascoli Piceno and Caserta.

Bologna hemp is specially valued.

A variety of oil-bearing plants and green fodder, as also cotton, hemp, flax and poppies, are grown.

Calarashi has a considerable transit trade in wheat, linseed, hemp, timber and fish from a broad mere on the west or from the Danube.

The city has a considerable trade with the surrounding country, in which large quantities of tobacco and hemp are produced; its manufactures include lumber, brooms, chairs, shoes, hemp twine, canned vegetables and glass bottles.

The products of the province are tea (the best quality of which is grown at Gan-hwa and the greatest quantity at Ping-kiang), hemp, cotton, rice, paper, tobacco, tea-oil and coal.

Flour-mills play an important part in the general industry of Russia, and there are several tobacco and hemp factories.

Macabebe's principal industries are the cultivation of rice and sugar cane, the distilling of nipa alcohol, and the weaving of hemp and cotton fabrics.

The principal products of the province are tea, China ware, grasscloth, hemp, paper, tobacco and tallow.

Gorinchem possesses a good harbour, and besides working in gold and silver, carries on a considerable trade in grain, hemp, cheese, potatoes, cattle and fish, the salmon fishery being noted.

The chief cultivated plants are maize, the sugar-cane, tobacco, cotton, coffee and especially henequen, the so-called "Sisal hemp," which is a strong, coarse fibre obtained from the leaves of the Agave rigida, var.

The principal articles of its trade are rice and cotton, some sugar cane (nai shakar), flax (Katun) and hemp (Kanab) are also grown.

Hemp and flax are mentioned as common crops.

The principal crops are wheat, rye, oats, barley, maize, hemp, flax, potatoes, beetroot and tobacco.

An active trade is carried on with Austria, especially through the Isakovets and Gusyatin custom-houses, corn, cattle, horses, skins, wool, linseed and hemp seed being exported, in exchange for wooden wares, linen, woollen stuffs, cotton, glass and agricultural implements.

The principal products are corn, oats, barley, potatoes, rye, beetroot, hemp, flax, hay and other fodder.

Camphor, sugar, tea, indigo, ground peanuts, jute, hemp, oil and rattans are all articles of export.

The use of Manchester prints and other European goods is fairly general; and the women, who make a fine native cloth from hemp, introduce coloured threads from the foreign stuffs, so as to produce ornamental devices.

Imports include coal,timber, tar and hemp. Steam sawing, metal-founding, fish-salting, shipbuilding and repairing, and the manufacture of ship's-biscuits and fishing-nets are among the industries.

East of the town rises Mayon, an active volcano, and the rich volcanic soil in this region produces hemp, rice and coco-nuts.

A common formula has i 1 parts of the acid, 3 of extract of Indian hemp, and 86 of collodion.

Among the other agricultural products are barley, hemp, flax and various vegetables, including good asparagus.

The principal crops are rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, potatoes, though wheat, beetroot, flax, hemp and tobacco are also grown.

Among other important productions of the Ottoman Empire are sesame, coleseed, castor oil, flax, hemp, aniseed, mohair, saffron, olive oil, gums, scammony and liquorice.

There are also in the city several large grain mills and breweries, a biscuit factory, wire and hemp roperies, fuel works, general foundries and engineering works.

Its principal imports are coffee (of which it is the greatest continental market), tea, sugar, spices, rice, wine (especially from Bordeaux), lard (from Chicago), cereals, sago, dried fruits, herrings, wax (from Morocco and Mozambique), tobacco, hemp, cotton (which of late years shows a large increase), wool, skins, leather, oils, dyewoods, indigo, nitrates, phosphates and coal.

Burauen is situated in a rich hemp-growing region, and hemp is its only important product.

Paper, cotton, silk, linen and hemp are manufactured.

The industries include the spinning of jute, flax, hemp and cotton, iron-founding, brewing, and the manufacture of machinery, fishing-nets, sailcloth, sacks, casks, and soap. There are also saw-and flour-mills, petroleum refineries and oil-works.

It has important commerce in linen, flax, hemp, wool and seeds, and a considerable transit trade.

Both men and women avoided washing, but there was something of the nature of a vapour bath, with which Herodotus has confused a custom of using the smoke of hemp as a narcotic. The women daubed themselves with a kind of cosmetic paste.

Hemp and flax had an importance, lost between 1827 and 1849, but responsible in 1792 for fairs on Saturday and Monday before Palm Sunday.

Wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize, flax, hemp and tobacco are grown in large quantities, and the products of the vineyards are of a good quality.

The inhabitants grow hemp, Indian corn, coffee, sibucao, cacao, cocoanuts (for copra) and sugar, weave rough fabrics and manufacture tuba (a kind of wine used as a stimulant), clay pots and jars, salt and soap. There is some fishing here.

From his committee he reported in April 1888 the "Mills Bill," which provided for a reduction of the duties on sugar, earthenware, glassware, plate glass, woollen goods and other articles, the substitution of ad valorem for specific duties in many cases, and the placing of lumber (of certain kinds), hemp, wool, flax, borax, tin plates, salt and other articles on the free list.

Sugar-cane, indigo, hemp, peanuts, potatoes of different varieties, yam, taro, beans, sesamum, pumpkins and vegetables of all kinds are also grown.

A superior grade of hemp is exported.

A small quantity of hemp and flax is raised, but a considerable quantity of fruit and vegetables is annually produced, and some wine, in the Coburg district of Konigsberg.

In the valleys the soil is particularly fertile, yielding luxuriant crops of wheat, maize, barley, spelt, beans, potatoes, flax, hemp, hops, beetroot and tobacco; and even in the more mountainous parts rye, wheat and oats are extensively cultivated.

Rice, wheat, barley, oats, Indian corn, various kinds of millet, pulses, oil-seeds, tobacco, cotton, indigo, opium, flax and hemp and sugar-cane, are the principal agricultural products of Bhagalpur district.

Maasin is an important port for hemp and copra.

The principal exports from Maracaibo are coffee, hides and skins, cabinet and dye-woods, cocoa, and mangrove bark, to which may be added dividivi, sugar, copaiba, gamela and hemp straw for paper-making, and fruits.

Instead of the expensive mile-long stout hemp lines used and since 1887 those of the prince of Monaco in his yachts, as by Ross, Maury introduced a ball of strong twine attached to a well as numerous Danish vessels in the sea between Iceland and cannon shot, which ran it out rapidly; when the bottom was Greenland, conspicuous amongst which were the expeditions reached the twine was cut and the depth deduced from the length in1896-1898on board the " Ingolf."

To do this with a heavy lead Sea in 1895-1898, while the Russians investigated the Black attached required a very strong hemp line, and the twine used Sea in 1890-1893.

In Belgium and the north of France flat ropes of aloe fibre (Manila hemp or plantain fibre) are in high repute, being considered preferable by many colliery managers to wire, in spite of their great weight.

Wheat and oats are largely cultivated, while hemp, vegetables and various fruits are also produced.

The cultivated products include coffee, the Coco-nut palm, tobacco, sugar-cane, cotton, vanilla, sorghum, earthnuts, sesame, maize, rice, beans, peas, bananas (in large quantities), yams, manioc and hemp. Animal products are ivory, hides, tortoiseshell and pearls.

The soil in the valleys is fertile, yielding wheat, barley, maize, flax, hemp and fruits.

The principal exports are cereals and flour, cattle, horses, hemp, flax, timber, sugar and oilcake.

The northern Algonquin and Iroquoian tribes practised similar arts, and in the Atlantic states wove robes of animal and bird skins by cutting the latter into long strips, winding these strips on twine of hemp, and weaving them by the same processes employed in their basketry.

Wheat, maize, rice, oil, flax and hemp, of fine quality, are grown in considerable quantities; as well as saffron, madder, liquorice, sumach, and a variety of fruits.

Tilsit carries on trade in timber, grain, hemp, flax, herrings and coal; but its trade with Russia, at one time considerable, has fallen off since the construction of the railway from Konigsberg to Kovno.

The principal crops are rye, oats, barley, flax and potatoes, with some wheat, hemp and buckwheat.

Livonia carries on a large export trade, especially through Riga and Pernau, in petroleum, wool, oilcake, flax, linseed, hemp, grain, timber and wooden wares; the Dvina is the chief channel for this trade.

The importance of hemp as an export - increasing from £26,000 in 1898 to £832,000 in 1907 - has led to improvements in cleaning and grading it.

For a moment it seemed as though the manufacture of hemp from the native Phormium tenax would become a great industry.

The former supervises the labour laws and endeavours to deal with unemployment; the latter has done much practical teaching, inspection, &c. Butter, cheese and New Zealand hemp are by law graded and branded by departmental inspectors before export.

In 1895 began a marked commercial revival, mainly due to the steady conversion of the colony's waste lands into pasture; the development of frozen meat and dairy exports; the continuous increase of the output of coal; the invention of gold-dredging; the revival and improvement of hemp manufacture; the exploiting of the deposits of kauri gum; the reduction in the rates of interest on mortgage money; a general rise in wages, obtained without strikes, and partially secured by law, which has increased the spending power of the working classes.

The Rhine valley is in great part fertile, yielding good crops of potatoes, cereals (including maize), sugar beet, hops, tobacco, flax, hemp and products of oleaginous plants.

Sisal hemp is grown, sponges are found in some quantities off the coast and there are four sponge-curing factories on the Caicos Islands.

The exports, chiefly to the United States, include salt, sponges and sisal hemp. Grand Turk is in cable communication with Bermuda and with Kingston, Jamaica, some 420 m.

On the 18th the assault was renewed, and on the 10th the Confederates, advancing behind movable breastworks of water-soaked bales of hemp, forced the besieged, now long without water, to surrender.

Alston's observations were founded on what occurred in certain unisexual plants, such as Mercurialis, Spinach, Hemp, Hop and Bryony.

In the neighbourhood large quantities of wheat, hemp, fruit and cider are produced; and there are important coal and iron mines, foundries, and factories for the manufacture of coarse cloth.

Silk is largely produced, and tobacco, wine, flax, hemp and fruits are cultivated.

The culture of tobacco, which is the second most valuable crop in the state, was begun in the north part about 1780 and in the west and south early in the 19th century, but it was late in that century before it was introduced to any considerable extent in the Blue Grass Region, where it was then in a measure substituted for the culture of hemp. By 1849 Kentucky ranked second only to Virginia in the production of tobacco, and in 1899 it was far ahead of any other state in both acreage and yield, there being in that year 384,805 acres, which was 34'9% of the total acreage in the continental United States, yielding 314,288,050 lb.

Kentucky is the principal hemp-growing state of the Union; the crop of 1899, which was grown on 14,107 acres and amounted to 10,303,560 lb, valued at $468,454, was 87'7% of the hemp crop of the whole country.

The chief articles of export are cereals, flour, wool, hemp, skins and fish; and the imports include hardwares, fruits, oil and petroleum.

The chief industries are the manufacture of woollens, cottons, silks, glass, laces, tobacco, straw-plait, paper, sugar and hemp, the breeding of silkworms, iron-founding and working, timber-cutting and shipbuilding.

The inhabitants of Kalocsa and its wide-spreading communal lands are chiefly employed in the cultivation of the vine, fruit, flax, hemp and cereals, in the capture of water-fowl and in fishing.

The crops include grain of all kinds (not sufficient, however, for the needs of the province), peas and beans, buckwheat, potatoes, fruit and hemp. The cultivation of flax is very extensive, especially in the N.E.

The chief crops are maize, wheat, barley, beans, rye, hemp, potatoes and tobacco.

Manufacture of woollens, cottons, Russia leather and embroidery is carried on, and there is trade in cattle, wine, tobacco, hemp, hides and grain.

Manufactures are almost confined to the spinning of hemp, and the making of coarse cloth, porcelain, earthenware and cutlery.

Bridgwater has a considerable coasting trade, importing grain, coal, wine, hemp, tallow and timber, and exporting Bath brick, farm produce, earthenware, cement and plaster of Paris.

Flax and hemp are also cultivated.

The imports consist principally of machinery, coal, grain, dried fish, tobacco and hides, and the exports of hemp, hides, olive oil, soap, coral, candied fruit, wine, straw hats, boracic acid, mercury, and marble and alabaster.

Potatoes, hemp, turnips, hops, tobacco and beet are also extensively grown, the latter, in connexion with the sugar industry, showing each year a larger return.

Philadelphia, the Atlantic port, exports chiefly petroleum, coal, grain and flour, and imports chiefly iron ore, sugar, drugs and chemicals, manufactured iron, hemp, jute and flax.

Wine, hemp and silk are the main articles of trade.

The manufacture of hemp began in Stockport in the 16th century, and that of silk-covered buttons in the 17th.

The level country, including both Lower Bavaria (extending northwards to the Danube) and the western and middle parts of Franconia, is productive of rye, oats, wheat, barley and millet, and also of hemp, flax, madder and fruit and vines.

Trade is carried on in these and in coal, wood and agricultural produce, while hemp and vegetables are largely grown in the environs.

Tobacco, hemp, hops, colza and chicory form special cultures.

Krushevats is the capital of a department bearing the same name, and has an active trade in tobacco, hemp, flax, grain and livestock, for the sale of which it possesses about a dozen markets.

The usual cereal crops are, however, all grown with success, and tobacco, hops, flax, rape, hemp and beetroot (for sugar) are cultivated for commercial purposes.

The principal imports are food supplies` and raw material such as cotton, wool, silk, flax, hemp and jute.

Altogether nearly 16 million acres of Russian Poland, or almost one-half of the total area, are under crops, principally rye, oats, wheat, barley, potatoes and hay, with some flax, hemp, peas, buckwheat and hops.

The principal fairs are held at Warsaw (wool, hemp, hops), Lcczyca in Kalisz, Skaryszew in Radom, Ciechanoviec in Lomza, and Lowicz in Warsaw.

The surrounding country is one of the most important hemp-producing districts in the Philippines; sinamay is woven here, and large quantities of hemp are shipped from here to Manila.

Smaller areas are devoted to maize, buckwheat, pease, rape, hemp, flax, hops and tobacco.

Manila is the greatest hemp market in the world; 110, 399 tons, valued at $19,444,769, were exported from the archipelago in 1906, almost all being shipped from Manila.

Rape oil is the subject of extensive adulteration, principally with the cheaper hemp oil, rosin oil and mineral oils.

These sophistications can be most conveniently detected, first by taste and next by saponification, rosin oil and mineral oil remaining unsaponified, hemp oil giving a greenish soap, while rape oil yields a soap with a yellow tinge.

It is, however, principally a cordage fibre, and in tensile strength it is second only to manila hemp; but it does not bear well the alternations of wet and dry to which ship-ropes are subject.

Other crops are potatoes, colza, hemp and flax.

Flax is grown in the north, and hemp more particularly in the central districts.

Flax and hemp are cultivated, though not so much as formerly, for manufacture into linen and canvas, and also rape seed for the production of oil.

Although Germany produces wool, flax and hemp, the home production of these materials is not sufficient to meet the demand of manufactures, and large quantities of them have to be imported.

In the textile industry for flax and hemp there were, in 1905, 276,000 fine spindles, 22,300 hand-looms and 17,600 power-looms in operation, and, in 1905, linen and jute materials were exported of an estimated value of over 2,000,000.

The exports are olive oil, hemp, flax, rice, fruit, wine, hats, cheese, steel, velvets, gloves, flour, paper, soap and marble, while the main imports are coal, cotton, grain, machinery, &c. Genoa has a large emigrant traffic with America, and a large general passenger steamer traffic both for America and for the East.

Flax and hemp are grown in a few places.

The chief crop is maize; but wheat, rye and other grains, potatoes, saffron, hemp, flax and tobacco are also grown.

The production of linen from flax and hemp is a home industry throughout Transylvania.

The exports consist chiefly of grain, timber, flax, hides, wool, a species of anchovy, and hemp, and the imports of manufactured goods and machinery.

In 1890 the operatives in the jute and hemp industry numbered 39,885, and in 1901 they were (including workers in canvas, sacking, sailcloth, rope, twine, mats, cocoa fibre) 46,550.

Cehegin has a thriving trade in farm produce, especially wine, olive oil and hemp; and various kinds of marble are obtained from quarries near the town.

Other industries are the cultivation of tobacco, rice, Indian corn and hemp, and the manufacture of sinamay, a coarse hemp cloth.

The soil of Bukovina is fertile, and agriculture has made great progress, the principal products being wheat, maize, rye, oats, barley, potatoes, flax and hemp. Cattlerearing constitutes another important source of revenue.

In accordance with the recommendations of the Hemp Drugs Commission, the government of India passed an act in 1896 providing that, in regard to ganja and charas, cultivation of the plants should be restricted as much as possible, and that a direct quantitative duty should be levied on the drugs on issue from the warehouse in the province of consumption; while as regards bhang, cultivation of the hemp for its production should be prohibited or taxed, and collection of the drug from wild plants permitted only under licence, a moderate quantitative duty being levied in addition to vend fees.

Bekescsaba possesses several large milling establishments, while the weaving of hemp and the production of hemp-linen is largely pursued as a home industry.

Plants valuable for their fibre number about 300, and among them is the abaca (Musa texilis), from the leaves of which Manila hemp is made.

The principal crops are hemp (abaca), sugar, tobacco, coco-nuts and rice.

The production increased from about 6000 tons in 1855 to 300,000 tons in 1893, and for many years prior to 1887 it was a more important crop than hemp, but since the American occupation the crop has been smaller.

When the Philippines were discovered by the Spaniards it was the only cultivated crop of importance, and until the 19th century it was the chief article of export, but as the culture of the more profitable crops of hemp, sugar and coco-nuts was extended it became an article of import.

The foreign commerce of the Philippines consists chiefly in the exportation of Manila hemp, dried coco-nut meat (copra), sugar and tobacco, both in the leaf and in cigars and cigarettes; and in the importation of cotton goods, rice, wheat-flour, fresh beef, boots and shoes, iron and steel, illuminating oil, liquors, paper and paper goods.

The articles chiefly cultivated are rice, millet, beans, ginseng (at Songdo), cotton, hemp, oil-seeds, bearded wheat, oats, barley, sorghum, and sweet and Irish potatoes.

They consist chiefly in the manufacture of sea-salt, of varied and admirable paper, thin and poor silk, horse-hair crinoline for hats, fine split bamboo blinds, hats and mats, coarse pottery, hemp cloth for mourners, brass bowls and grass-cloth.

In the United Kingdom, under the name of "coir" matting, a large amount of a coarse kind of carpet is made from coco-nut fibre; and the same material, as well as strips of cane, Manila hemp, various grasses and rushes, is largely employed in various forms for making door mats.

At them the neophytes worked up wool, tanned hides, prepared tallow, cultivated hemp and wheat, raised a few oranges, made soap, some iron and leather articles, mission furniture, and a very little wine and olive oil.

The staple crop of the province is rice, along with cotton, tobacco, sugar, hemp and indigo.

Wrapping ConnectorsBelts, Cords and Chains Flat belts of leather or of gutta percha, round cords of catgut, hemp or other material, and metal chains are used as wrapping connectors to transmit rotatory motion between pairs of pulleys and drums.

The distinctive badge of a member of the three upper castes was the sacred triple cord or thread (sutra) - made of cotton, hemp or wool, according to the respective caste - with which he was invested at the upanayana ceremony, or initiation into the use of the sacred savitri, or prayer to the sun (also called gayatri), constituting his second birth.

Take the case of a stranded ship carrying a bulky cargo of hemp and grain, but carrying also some bullion.

It may well be that that operation must be regarded as done in the interest simply of the bullion itself, but that the subsequent operations of lightening the ship and floating her can only be properly regarded as undertaken in the common interest of ship, hemp, grain and freight.

Up till then such primitive means as pads of hemp or cloth steeped in oil had been employed.

When the commerce of New England was interrupted as a consequence of the Napoleonic wars, the abundance of water power afforded by the rivers encouraged manufacturing, and the region rapidly acquired prominence in this industry, especially in the manufacture of textiles, of boots and shoes, and of paper and wood pulp; in 1905 the value of the textile products of New England (excluding flax, hemp and jute) alone was $522,821,440 (more than 45% of that of the entire country), the value of boots and shoes was $181,023,946 (more than 55% of the total for the entire country), the value of paper and wood pulp was $49,813,133 (more than one-quarter of that of the entire country), and the value of all factory products amounted to $2,025,998,437 (nearly one-seventh of the total for the entire country).

There is a considerable coasting trade, sugar, brought by a tramway from neighbouring towns, is shipped from here, and the cultivation of sugar-cane is an important industry; Indian corn, tobacco, hemp, cotton and cacao are also grown.

The fibre is separated from the stalks by a process of retting similar to that for flax and hemp. In certain districts of Bengal it is the practice to stack the crop for a few days previous to retting in order to allow the leaves to dry and to drop off the stalks.

The fibre is decidedly inferior to flax and hemp in strength and tenacity; and, owing to a peculiarity in its microscopic structure, by which the walls of the separate cells composing the fibre vary much in thickness at different points, the single strands of fibre are of unequal strength.

Jute, indeed, is much more woody in texture than either flax or hemp, a circumstance which may be easily demonstrated by its behaviour under appropriate reagents; and to that fact is due the change in colour and character it undergoes on exposure to the air.

The pioneers of the work were confronted with many difficulties; most people condemned the fibre and the cloth, many warps were discarded as unfit for weaving, and any attempt to mix the fibre with flax, tow or hemp was considered a form of deception.

In their general features the spinning and weaving of jute fabrics do not differ essentially as to machinery and processes from those employed in the manufacture of hemp and heavy flax goods.

The term is also used of a handful of hemp or other fibre, and is one of the many technical applications of "strike" or "streak," which etymologically are cognate words.

Among the many economic plants which have been introduced into Chile and have become important additions to her resources, the more prominent are wheat, barley, hemp and alfalfa (Medicago sativa), together with the staple European fruits, such as the apple, pear, peach, nectarine, grape, fig, olive and orange.

Good hemp grows wild in Mazandaran.

The chief articles of commerce, besides slate and manufactured goods, are hemp, early vegetables, fruit, flowers and live-stock.

The nuts furthermore have been applied to the manufacture of an oil for burning, cosmetic preparations and starch, and in Switzerland, France and Ireland, when rasped on ground, to the bleaching of flax, hemp, silk and wool.

The book ends with the obscurest passage of the whole, an elaborate eulogy of the "herb pantagruelion," which appears to be, if it is anything, hemp. Only two probable explanations of this have been offered, the one seeing in it an anticipation of Joseph de Maistre's glorification of the executioner, the other a eulogy of work, hemp being on the whole the most serviceable of vegetable products for that purpose.

The town carries on an extensive trade in grain, flax, hemp, wood, tar and leather.

Owing to the great railway which crosses the country from Riga to Smolensk, afterwards dividing into two branches, to Orenburg and Tsaritsyn on the lower Volga respectively, Riga is the storehouse and place of export for hemp coming by rail from west central Russia, and for corn, Riga merchants sending their buyers as far east as Tambov.

Various other adulterants are sometimes used, such as the inspissated juice of the prickly pear, extracts from tobacco, stramonium and hemp, pulp of the tamarind and bael fruit, mahwah flowers and gums of different kinds.

The men of Tabaco are largely engaged in the cultivation of hemp; the women in weaving cloth, baskets and mats.

Nikopol is, further, one of the chief places on the lower Dnieper for the export of corn, linseed, hemp and wool.

The common material for re ceiving the impressions from the matrices was beeswax, generally strengthened and hardened by admixture with other substances, such as resin, pitch and even hemp and hair.

The articles dealt in are wine, oil, spirits, drugs, tobacco, chemicals, hemp, cotton, wool, silk, timber, paper, leather and hides, metal, glass, cereals and live animals.

Marco Polo, who passed through the town in 1274, says that "Everything is to be had there [at Cotan, Khotan] in plenty, including abundance of cotton, with flax, hemp, wheat, wine, and the like.

The chief trade of Harlingen is the exportation of Frisian produce, namely, butter and cheese, cattle, sheep, fish, potatoes, flax, &c. There is also a considerable import trade in timber, coal, raw cotton, hemp and jute for the Twente factories.

The city's industries consist chiefly in a large trade in tobacco, hemp, grain and live stock - there are large semi-annual horse sales - and in the manufacture of " Bourbon " whisky, tobacco, flour, dressed flax and hemp, carriages, harness and saddles.

A usual value of for hemp ropes on cast-iron pulleys is 0.3, and the exponential log ratio is therefore 0 3ur cosec 20 when 9 =7r.

Of fibres the most important are cotton, Deccan hemp (Hibiscus cannabinus), and sunn or tag (Crotalaria juncea).

There are also mills for flax and hemp yarns, a weaving factory and a hosiery factory.

Oats, flax and hemp are cultivated.

Its inhabitants are employed chiefly in the cultivation of flax and hemp, and in the making of ropes.

Flax, hemp and tobacco are also grown; hemp especially near Leskovats.

The chief manufacturing industries are those for which the country supplies raw material, notably meat-packing, flour-milling, brewing, tanning, and the weaving or spinning of hemp, flax and wool.

Its people are agriculturists and raise Indian corn, sibucao, hemp, cacao and coffee.

The inhabitants of Viterbo are chiefly dependent on agriculture; hemp is a specialty of the district, and tobacco and various grains are largely grown, as well as the olive and the vine.

The English parliament in their desire to encourage the linen industry at the expense of the woollen, followed Ormonde's lead by passing an act inviting foreign workmen to settle in Ireland, and admitting all articles made of flax or hemp into England free of duty.

In 1850 the number of persons employed in flax mills and factories was 21,121; in 1901 the number in flax, hemp and jute textile factories was 64,802.

Indian corn heads the list of cereals, but wheat, oats, rye and barley are also cultivated, besides hemp, flax, tobacco and large quantities of potatoes.

The winters are here long and cold; the vine and maize are no longer cultivated,the principal crops being wheat, barley, oats, rye, hemp and flax.

The women spin and weave, and with the rudest appliances manufacture a variety of strong and durable cloths of silk,cotton and hemp, and of rofia palm, aloe and banana fibre, of elegant patterns, and often with much taste in colour.

Bauan has a fine church and is known as a market for "sinamay" or hemp cloth, the hemp and cotton being imported and dyed and woven by the women in their homes.

Galicia has the largest area under potatoes and legumes in the whole of Austria, and hemp, flax, tobacco and hops are of considerable importance.

Much of the lower ground is well adapted for agriculture, and yields grain in abundance; the principal fruit grown is the apple, from which cider is made in some districts; hemp, flax and oil are also produced, and mulberries are cultivated for silkworms. The wine trade is active, and the products of the vineyards are in great demand in south-west France and at Passages in Guipuzcoa for mixing with French wines.

Among the western Baluba, or Bashilange, a remarkable politico-religious revolution took place at a comparatively recent date, initiated by a secret society termed Bena Riamba or " Sons of Hemp," and resulted in the subordination of the old fetishism to a cult of hemp, in accordance with which all hemp-smokers consider themselves brothers, and the duty of mutual hospitality, &c., is acknowledged.

Almost all kinds of vegetables and garden-fruits, oranges, rice, hemp and other products are generally grown solely or mainly on irrigated land, whereas most kinds of grain, vines and olives are cultivated chiefly on dry soil.

When the male and female flowers of a species are found on separate plants, the term dioecious is applied, as in Mercurialis and hemp; and when a species has male, female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same or different plants, as in Parietaria, it is polygamous.

In the southern districts hemp and flax are raised, but grain crops are little cultivated, so that the bark of trees has often to be ground up to eke out the scanty supply of flour.

It is well known that the habitual consumption of certain drugs, such as tobacco, Indian hemp, opium, arsenic, alcohol and many others, gradually induces a condition of tolerance to their effects, so that large doses can be taken without causing symptoms of poisoning.

The bast fibres of Cannabis are the hemp of commerce, but, unfortunately, the products from many totally different plants are often included under the general name of hemp. In some cases the fibre is obtained from the stem, while in others it comes from the leaf.

Sunn hemp, Manila hemp, Sisal hemp, and Phormium (New Zealand flax, which is neither flax nor hemp) are treated separately.

Then there are Canada hemp, Apocynum cannabinum, Kentucky hemp, Urtica cannabina, and others.

The hemp plant, like the hop, which is of the same natural order, Cannabinaceae, is dioecious, i.e.

The leaves of hemp have five to seven leaflets, the form of which is lanceolate-acuminate, with a serrate margin.

All cultivated hemp belongs to the same species, Cannabis saliva; the special varieties such as Cannabis indica, Cannabis chinensis, &c., owe their differences to climate and soil, and they lose many of their peculiarities when cultivated in temperate regions.

Rumphius (in the i 7th century) had noticed these differences between Indian and European hemp.

Wild hemp still grows on the banks of the lower Ural, and the Volga, near the Caspian Sea.

Wild hemp is, however, of very little use as a fibre producer, although a drug is obtained from it.

It would appear that the native country of the hemp plant is in some part of temperate Asia, probably near the Caspian Sea.

Very little hemp is now grown in the British Isles, although this variety was considered to be of very good quality, and to possess great strength.

The Central Provinces, Bengal and Bombay are the chief centres of hemp cultivation in India, where the plant is of most use for narcotics.

The satisfactory growth of hemp demands a light, rich and fertile soil, but, unlike most substances, it may be reared for a few years in succession.

The very finest hemp, that grown in the province of Piedmont, Italy, is, however, very similar to flax, and in many cases the two fibres are mixed in the same material.

The hemp fibre has always been valuable for the rope industry, and it was at one time very extensively used in the production of yarns for the manufacture of sail cloth, sheeting, covers, bagging, sacking, &c. Much of the finer quality is still made into cloth, but almost all the coarser quality finds its way into ropes and similar material.

A large quantity of hemp cloth is still made for the British navy.

Hemp yarns are also used in certain classes of carpets, for special bags for use in cop dyeing and for similar special purposes, but for the ordinary bagging and sacking the employment of hemp yarns has been almost entirely supplanted by yarns made from the jute fibre.

Hemp is grown for three products - (r) the fibre of its stem; (2) the resinous secretion which is developed in hot countries upon its leaves and flowering heads; (3) its oily seeds.

Hemp has been employed for its fibre from ancient times.

Hesychius says the Thracian women made sheets of hemp. Moschion (about 200 B.C.) records the use of hempen ropes for rigging the ship "Syracusia" built for Hiero II.

The hemp plant has been cultivated in northern India from a considerable antiquity, not only as a drug but for its fibre.

The Anglo-Saxons were well acquainted with the mode of preparing hemp. Hempen cloth became common in central and southern Europe in the 13th century.

Bhang, the Hindustani siddhi or sabzi, consists of the dried leaves and small stalks of the hemp; a few fruits occur in it.

Hashish is one of the Arabic names given to the Syrian and Turkish preparations of the resinous hemp leaves.

The medicinal and intoxicating properties of hemp have probably been known in Oriental countries from a very early period.

An ancient Chinese herbal, part of which was written about the 5th century B.C., while the remainder is of still earlier date, notices the seed and flower-bearing kinds of hemp. Other early writers refer to hemp as a remedy.

The use of hemp (bhang) in India was noticed by Garcia d'Orta in 1563.

It has been suggested that the incoordination of nervous action under the influence of Indian hemp may be due to independent and non-concerted action on the part of the two halves of the cerebrum.

Favored summer nectar sources include hemp agrimony, bramble, marjoram and ivy blossom.

A ride was cut through the wood for a gas pipeline in 1967 and this is now dominated by hemp agrimony.

You can also work your way through hook baits trying double maggot or a single grain of hemp.

The protein in hemp seed is very similar to the protein in human blood plasma.

The French used wooden bungs wrapped in hemp to stopper their wines.

Fishing an 8m pole Hugh fed caster, hemp and small 3mm pellet and fished double caster tipped with worm on the hook.

Dean fished his favorite Icelandic red caviar and cream boilies with crushed boilies and hemp in a pva bag.

Both sites had new species including water chickweed, common toadflax, snapdragon, common hemp nettle, dwarf mallow and greater knapweed.

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Because Hemp seeds are so digestible, scientists are suggesting their use in medicine to help block diseases and for treating malnutrition.

A universal papular and vesicular eruption appeared in a man a few hours after he smoked Indian hemp (Beliaev 1964 ).

The reed was attached to the purlins under strips of split hazel, which were then tied down with hemp twine.

Steve fished a small float 4 rods out and feed hemp and carp pellet fishing soft pellets on the hook.

This spring Deb secured a Home Office license to grow hemp at Osborne.

We will continue to support the development of hemp projects around the world, and all our products will always contain hemp.

Hemp Textile people have been using hemp Textile people have been using hemp to make textile for some 6000 years all over the world.

The pegs by the chalets are popular and the fish see regular helpings of grub that include hemp and pellets.

Adding a little groundbait or some crushed hemp or pellet to stiffen the mix as I did is the easiest solution.

An acre of industrial hemp produces four times more paper than an acre of trees.

The LCA was formed in 1999 by a group of Norwich activists who felt cannabis hemp was not getting a fair deal.

Fishing light floats and feeding hemp, the pair fished double maggot on the hook and had bream to over 6lb.

The bog area has wetland plants including hemp agrimony, purple loosestrife, bullrush and yellow flag.

The first denim jeans were made by Levi Strauss from hemp.

The able poor were to be set to work doing fairly menial duties such as hemp picking or could be hired out.

Best feed 4mm - 6mm halibut pellets, chopped meat or hemp.

My old bait dropper is loaded with hemp and 3mm pellet, gently swung down to the bottom.

As well as using hemp fuel for his Model T, Henry Ford used hemp plastics to build the body work.

Andrews successful bait was a grain of corn tipped of with a small red worm which he fished over hemp and chopped corn.

Live media reportage hit the headlines and Hemp BC immediately re-opened for business.

Marks are made on hemp ropes with tape which correspond to a known height of a flown item.

The ground floor screed was also made up of a hemp mix.

Crops include sugar beet, potatoes, grain, grapes, tobacco, flax, hemp and wine.

There is an attached ' flap out ' booster of one layer of hemp french terry topped with organic cotton velour.

At Hemp Knoll, the bone belt ring was hidden beneath the dead man's right thigh.

Organic cotton and hemp diapers and organic wool waterproof covers are available at a reasonable cost.

Thus in La Petite Fadette, by the happy device of making the hemp dresser the narrator, she speaks (to quote Sainte-Beuve) as though she had on her right the unlettered rustic and on her left a member of the Academie, and made herself the interpreter between the two.

In the introductory paper in Maxwell's collection we are told that " The practice of draining, enclosing, summer fallowing, sowing flax, hemp, rape, turnip and grass seeds, planting cabbages after, and potatoes with, the plough, in fields of great extent, is introduced; and that, according to the general opinion, more corn grows now yearly where it was never known to grow before, these twenty years last past, than perhaps a sixth of all that the kingdom was in use to produce at any time before."

Flora.-Almost every description of grain is found, especially wheat and maize, besides Turkish pepper or paprika, rape-seed, hemp and flax, beans, potatoes and root crops.

During the 19th century the opening of a railway system in East Prussia and Russia gave a new impetus to its commerce, making it the principal outlet for the Russian staples - grain, seeds, flax and hemp. It has now regular steam communication with Memel, Stettin, Kiel, Amsterdam and Hull.

A new mixing head enables the established LFI technology to be used for flax, hemp or sisal fibers.

Pete fished stringer corn over hemp taking his fish from close to the island.

The thatch huts are roofed with plumber 's hemp.

At Hemp Knoll, the bone belt ring was hidden beneath the dead man 's right thigh.

Hemp seed does not contain the anti-nutrient trypsin inhibitors found in soya milk.

It has an outer and inner layer of 100% organic cotton velour with a hidden layer of hemp french terry.

For the best solution, organic cotton and hemp diapers and organic wool waterproof overpants are available at a reasonable cost.

Alan fished caster and worm on the hook free feeding caster and hemp little and often.

Pretty Momma Solarveil slings are typically made out of hemp or organic materials.

These diapers are flat squares of cotton (or bamboo, hemp, or wool) folded into a kind of pad that gets inserted into a diaper cover.

Some are made from cotton, while other versions feature natural fiber materials, including bamboo, wool and hemp.

Use hemp, fiberglass or another material to lash the components together and then apply the epoxy to the joints.

Consider using organic materials such as linen, hemp and cotton for window treatments and slipcovers.

Hemp is another natural fiber with strong durability properties and makes an ideal choice for anyone wanting a rug made from natural material.

Other types of fabric that area rugs can be made from include synthetic fibers, cotton, hemp, bamboo, sisal, seagrass, jute, Flokati and blends.

You may add raw hemp seed protein powder for an extra boost of protein.

Hemp Protein - Another non-dairy alternative is hemp protein.

Hemp protein powder is a vegetable-based powder low in fat and carbohydrates.

Hemp seeds are a healthy source of protein and essential amino acids.

Hemp protein powder is quickly gaining popularity in the vegetarian world and is available through a number of well-known brands.

Derived from the hemp plant Cannabis satra, marijuana can be smoked as a cigarette or in a pipe.

Choices in eco-friendly curtains include bamboo, hemp, linen and organic cotton.

Accessories often include studded black belts and leather bracelets, strand upon strand of hemp necklaces with wooden charms, horn-rimmed glasses, hand-knit toboggans and scarves, and pins featuring anti-establishment slogans.

Look for dark pants, vintage T-shirts, boots or Converse tennis shoes, and hemp jewelry among other items.

Hemp fibers are very strong, yet they are also quite soft.

Dogs typically can't resist chewing hemp because it has a naturally sweet flavor.

Choose dog toys, beds and clothing made with recycled or sustainable materials such as hemp, recycled cotton filler or fleece made from recycled plastic bottles.

Leather thonging has long been used, however silk, hemp and even rubber can also be used to hang a silver pendant from.

Bracelets can also be found made from hemp, cotton, silk, linen and even string.

Still, there are already many places online where you can buy organic clothing, usually made from cotton, bamboo or hemp.

They do carry hemp and merino wool knit, but these are natural, rather than organic.

Organic alpaca, hemp, merino or even bamboo can be found.

This means that the raw material such as cotton, hemp or wool has been grown without the use of chemicals such as pesticides and harsh fertilizers.

Like cotton and bamboo, hemp can be organically grown and is sustainable and renewable.

Hemp grows extremely quickly, and produces more fiber yield per year than other sustainable fibers like cotton and flax.

Like bamboo, hemp is an extremely strong fiber, and products made with hemp fabrics don't wear out easily.

Hemp holds its shape extremely well, meaning less stretching and better durability.

Hemp is resistant to mold and ultraviolet light.

Another option is to choose blended bamboo totes that are part bamboo and part organic linen, hemp, or cotton.

A lot of people are talking about organic hemp oil these days.

As a supplement, hemp oil - the oil pressed from the seeds of the hemp plant - contains a lot of very important compounds.

Hemp oil is over 80 percent essential fatty acids in their purest form, and has a three to one ratio of essential omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids.

Hemp is super high in protein, weighing in at 25% by bulk.

Powder supplements made from hemp are a great source of protein for vegetarians, vegans and others looking to avoid animals products.

Many of us know of hemp from its notorious counterpart, marijuana, but there is a big difference between the two.

Hemp oil is made from the seeds of the Cannabis Sativa plant, not the buds - just like hemp fabric is made from the natural fibers of the plant's stalk.

There is no danger in getting "high" from taking a hemp seed oil supplement, so feel free to reap the health benefits of this amazing nutritional powerhouse.

There are many suppliers that will sell you organic hemp oil.

There is a ton of information about organic hemp oil available, if you know where to look.

Dr. Andrew Weil wrote a great article about the merits of adding hemp oil to your diet.

Did you know that hemp oil can be used as fuel for your car?

Here is a PDF of hemp oil's nutritional profile.

This article outlines the difference between hemp and its cousin, marijuana.

Merry Hempsters Vegan Salve is a heating balm made from hemp seed oil.

Because they're composed of natural materials, many organic fabrics, like bamboo and hemp, are naturally mold, mildew and UV resistant.

Hemp can be woven into linen like fabric that has anti-microbial qualities.

Organic clothing is made from organic fabrics, like cotton, wool, and hemp.

In today's eco-fashion industry, the clothing contains fibers such as organic cotton, hemp and bamboo, and is a great alternative for those wanting to live a truly green lifestyle.

In fact, hemp yields about twice that of flax and the fabrics are almost identical.

Rawganique offers a selection of organic hemp clothing in plus sizes.

Spring is all about eco-fabrics such as hemp, canvas, linen and basketweave.

Ideally, you want all your underwear to be 100% cotton or another healthy fiber such as hemp.

Rawganique provides a selection of plus size clothing in sizes to 3x made from organic linen, cotton and hemp.

If you have a hippie-inspired shop nearby that sells incense, old band t-shirts, and hemp jewelry, check there, too.

Some plastic pet caskets are biodegradable, made from materials such as hemp oil, soy bean oil and corn starch, or from other microbial sources.

Additionally, this product is created with hemp, which is naturally beneficial to African American hair.

Look for organic cotton, bamboo and even hemp in trunks that will hold up well and make for a more worry-free summer.

This is especially true if you are using a lighter fabric, but you should definitely purchase some organic cotton or hemp lining for the bikini bottom to guarantee comfort and healthy wear.

These days, you're more likely to find cotton or even hemp rather than muslin or silk, except for a more expensive party dress.