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ground, fo as to zQ: as a fcreen to the furface of the land, 

 aaainft the intenfe heat of the fun, and thereby prevent, in 

 great meafure, the bad efFecls of the foil's caking in dry 

 weather. 



When land is to be laid down with feeds, the feeds muft 

 not be fown, as ufual, with the grain, but the day the laft 

 hoeing is to be performed. If feeds are fown when barley 

 is fown, hoeing is excluded, confequently the great ad- 

 vantages of drilling are fruftrated; but not being fown till 

 the laft hoeing is juft going to take place, every purpofe is 

 anfwered. For the crop is not only improved by hoeing, 

 but the foil in the fpaces between the rows of corn, being 

 cleared from weeds, and pulverized by hoeing, will be -in 

 much better condition to receive the feeds; and the feeds 

 being fown broadcaft juft before the laft hoeing, will be 

 incorporated with the foil by the a6lion of the hoe, fo as 

 to vegetate much better, and produce a much better crop 

 than ufual. The wings or moulding plates of the hoe 

 may, or may not be ufed at all upon land that is to lie 

 down with feeds. 



Such ftrong weeds as may grow directly in the rows of 

 corn, and out of the reach of the hoe to cut up, fhould be 

 plucked up by hand, to prevent their coming to maturity, 

 and dropping their feeds upon the foil, that has been pre- 

 vioufly made clean by hoeing. 



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