On Wed, 9 May 2007, Paul Sorenson wrote:
> Growing hemp was encouraged during WWII to provide fiber for the
> manufacture of manilla rope. At the edge of the small town where I grew
> up there was a mill where they processed the hemp fibers. After the war
> the buildings were used for canning vegetables, but were referred to by
> the locals as the "hemp mill" well into the late 1950's.
>
> -p
>
We had "ditch weed" as they called it decide to start growing
around our garage growing up in Iowa. Tenacious stuff. When we rented
out the house for a year, the folks that lived there had the authorities
come out, and they tried to kill with with all sorts of stuff they put
around it. The hemp *LOVED* it... mulitplied like madness and grow
routinely up to 8-10' tall.
-Cory
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