Hemp crop on the Hauraki Plains

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The Chinese grow more than 100 000ha of this a year; and a recent trial with military troops, going into adverse battle conditions, clearly showed the troops with hemp clothing and uniforms didn’t suffer the skin disease which the troops dressed in cotton did. It appeared the hemp uniforms acted as a disease suppressant. 
 
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