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when in tillage. It volatilizes and exhales thofe 

 finer particles, on which depend, or with which is 

 conneded, the food of plants; but where hulban- 

 dry is very ill underftood, and the farmers have no 

 corredl ideas of the due arrangement of crops, this 

 evil is properly fubmitted to, in order to effed: the 

 deftruftion of weeds by ploughing. How valuable 

 then is the turnip culture, which by means of hoe- 

 ing deftroys the weeds, and at the fame time covers 

 the land from the adion of the fun, in thofe months 

 which are oftentimes the hotteft in the year! 



If the land be well tilled and pulverized, I am 

 inclined to think, that many weeds may rather be 

 propagated than killed by the turnip huibandry 

 without hoeing; for if the ploughings be given in 

 a quick fucceflion, the roots and feeds will be 

 tumbled about too faft for vegetation, and when 

 the land is fown and left to repofe, they will grow 

 very fafl; and if no hoeing follow, the fuccedive 

 crops will, by their weedy appearance, fhew that 

 little benefit is derived from this very imperfedt 

 management. 



That the right condud is to hoe, cannot be 

 doubted; but the queftion is, how to enforce it? 

 Your excellent Society of true and genuine patriots 

 have done much in almoft every branch of hufban- 



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