A History of Hemp
20th Century Hemp
1916: USDA bulletin #404 is written on hemp herd paper and issued under the title “Hemp Herds as Paper Making Material”. The report states that even then, forests were being cut down three times faster than they grew and called for alternatives to the use of timber, including using hemp pulp instead of tree pulp for paper. It also announces a fiber separating machine that would greatly reduce labor costs, improve paper quality, and preserve forests by providing low cost, abundant sources of pulp to fill the worlds growing need for paper. It further states that 10,000 “acres devoted to hemp raising year by year is equivalent to a sustained pulp wood timber lands”. Hemp has now received US government sanction as a viable and important cash crop that could replace forest products as a source of paper pulp.
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