“A certainty of sale, as was already observed, will be encouraged enough for the growers of hemp.”
-Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser, January 12, 1799
Congress Guarantee’s the Growers of Hemp
This little gem from 1799 points to the United Stated Congress guaranteeing the sale of hemp by growers. Not only for the coming year but what had already been observed…
America encouraging the Growing of Hemp, in 1799…
“I have suggested no plan for the encouragement of the manufacture of sail cloth. This subject will be better understood in Congress. A certainty of sale, as was already observed, will be encouraged enough for the growers of hemp.”
-Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser, January 12, 1799
Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser, January 12, 1799
Stack of hemp grown on George Erickson’s farm near Seneca, Illinois. He was induced to raise this crop on promise of a market for it. It is now rotting… January 1937