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a"nd the field levelled to prepare it for planting. 

 The advantage of this method muft needs be evi- 

 dent to every pradical man, for nothing in art or 

 nature renders even the moll adhelive foil fo 

 lliort and friable as expofing it through the winter 

 to the froft. 



This being the ftate of the field, we proceed now 

 to prepare it for planting. On the further fide of 

 the field, about a yard difl:ant from the hedge, draw 

 a furrow with the plough from one end of the field 

 to the other, and return the plough again in the 

 fame furrow. This will make it wide, deep, and 

 clean. Then enter the ploughfhare about nine 

 inches diftant from the edge of the furrow, and 

 with one bout of the plough, throw the earth on 

 each fide into the middle of the furrow. A fecond 

 bout of the plough, performed in the fame man- 

 ner, will form a high ridge about three feet wide. 

 It is evident, a ridge thus formed will, under the 

 crown or moft elevated part of it, have /wke the 

 depth of pulverized earth that can be had in com- 

 mon ploughing. The whole field is to be formed 

 into ridges in the fame manner as the firft^. In 

 land that is tolerably clean, and in pretty good 

 tilth, the intervals between the ranks of plants on 

 the tops of thcfc ridges will be wide enough for 

 the hoc-plough to work, and keep it fo. But land' 



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