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mittcd to remain by the hand-hoers. And as the 

 fupernumcrary plants are ealily pulled out or cut 

 up in hoeing, it is bell to drill feed enough to al- 

 low for djvartation. 



Permit me here to enumerate many ftriking ad- 

 vantages arifing from this mode of cultivation in 

 general, and the horfe-hoeing part of the procefs 

 in particular. 



Firjl. That you may have a crop of beans and 

 of turnips on the fame land the fame year,* 



2dly. The Bean crop being well horfe-hoed, no 

 ploughing is wanted for turnips, for which the beft 

 Norfolk farmers give live ploughings.f 



i^dly. It is hoed cheaper, more effectually, and . 

 confequently more profitably, than in any other way. 



^thly. The ground is kept clean from WTeds. 



c^thly. It is in order for a Lent crop the fucceed- 

 ing year, with one earth. 



Glhly. The ground is kept in heart, if not 'im- 

 proved, by fallowing your alleys. 



Ithly. It brings the plant to perfedlion in poor 

 ground, where it would not become fo otherwife. 



* To this there is one principal objeftion, viz. that the fame foil cannot be 

 proper for both crops. Scotch cabbages are better adapted to a bean foil. 



f Of late years, rarely more than three, unlefs the land be full of 

 couch grafs. 



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