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ヘンプと農業

Prize Poster Molly Entner-Cohen 11-6-1935

Hemp was present at the dawn of human agriculture, thought to be some 10-15,000 years ago in the Middle East and China. Hemp was reported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Yearbook, 1914, to have been the first agricultural crop planted by humans for textile fibers. Besides the cloth itself, a sample of which was dated at 9,000 years, is the record of pollen left behind at early human dwelling sites.

Of course in the middle east hemp grew wild, so it is likely it was used long before the age of agriculture for rope, twine, and fishnets. Evidence of just such a human hemp culture comes from a History Channel report on the Scythians called the "Frozen Tombs of Siberia."

ODE FOR AN AGRICULTURAL CELEBRATION
By William Cullen Bryant

Far back in the ages,
The plough with wreaths was crowned;
The hands of kings and sages
Till men of spoil disdained the toil
Entwined the chaplet round;
By which the world was nourished,
And dews of blood enriched the soil
Where green their laurels flourished:
---Now the world her fault repairs
The guilt that stains her story;
And weeps her crimes amid the cares
That formed her earliest glory.

The proud throne shall crumble,
The diadem shall wane,
The tribes of earth shall humble
The pride of those who reign;
And War shall lay his pomp away; ---
The fame that heroes cherish,
The glory earned in deadly fray,
Shall fade, decay, and perish.
Honor waits, over all the Earth,
Through endless generations,
The art that calls her harvests forth,
And feeds the expectant nations.

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