VJ.] CULTIVATION. 



will be about a foot and a half, or from that to 

 two feet high. The tassel, or blossom head, 

 which is denoted by c, in the plate repre- 

 senting the plant, will, about the middle of July, 

 begin to make its appearance. At the same 

 time, the ears begin to show themselves forming 

 in the socket of the blades on the sides of the 

 stalk. When you see the tassel begin to rise 

 above the sockets of the upper blades, it is a 

 good time to plough again; for by this time 

 rains have, perhaps, battered the ground, and 

 given time for the weeds to make a fresh start. 

 Now, therefore, the second ploughing is to be 

 given, and to be given precisely in the manner 

 before described in case of tillage in rows. If 

 the tillage be in hills, and you have taken care 

 ^ to have your planting true, you may now plough 

 cross ways, though the width be but four feet 

 in the cross direction. If that be not perfectly 

 true, you cannot do this, and must content 

 yourself with a double ploughing of the five feet 

 interval as before. At this ploughing you must 

 not go quite so close to the plants as you did 

 before ; but if you now leave six inches between 

 the plants and the plough, it will be quite 

 enough, taking care, in case of the single row, 

 to plough by alternate intervals first. Then 

 turn them back, and then plough the others. 

 102, Let no one be afraid of the consequences 



