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jmowreader

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13. The cotton lobby may not care one way or the other

Reply to msongs (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 10, 2015, 05:18 AM

Feb 2015

Hemp is a linen replacement, not a cotton replacement. It's a good fiber but turning hemp stalks into yarn is far more complex than turning cotton bolls into yarn. Google "retting" and "ginning" sometime.

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