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y for weeds ; the expense of ploughing will bear no 

 proportion to the after expense of weeding. 



8. Weed your corn with the plough and hoe ; not 

 after the weeds are grown, but as soon as they begin 

 to appear ; one crop is enough for one piece of land 

 at one time, and if you suffer weeds to grow with 

 your corn, you will in fact have but one crop, and that 

 will be weeds, your corn will be only a nominal crop. 



9. Weed your wheat, rye, barley, oats, flax and 

 hemp ; the profit will be as great upon either of these 

 crops, as upon your corn, and the expense com- 

 paratively small, (generally.) Try it and see. 



Irrigation. 



Jn my monthly remarks, I have noticed this spe- 

 v:ies of tillage generally ; a few remarks a little more 

 particularly, may be useful in this place. It is not 

 my intention to give my remarks upon irrigation 

 their full scope ; but to confine myself to such, only, 

 as are adapted to the practical state of our own coun- 

 try. To make the most of this subject will many 

 times require a large capital, even in England where 

 labour is cheap ; but the expense of labour, together 

 with the limited capitals of our own country, will not 

 enable the farming interest generally, to extend their 

 improvements by irrigation beyond such wash as they 

 can convey from gentle descents in the highways, on 

 to their adjoining mowing grounds, and such wash as 

 they may occasionally turn on to their meadows, 

 from brooks, or other small streams, by obstructing 

 them with dams suitable for the purpose. This me- 

 thod of irrigation is both useful and valuable, and, 

 when turned on to sloping grounds, may be multiplied 

 very extensively at small expense, upon the catch- 

 work plan, (so called.) Upon this plan, when the 

 wash is carried over the higher parts of the field, 

 (upon sloping grounds,) lead it back and forth at; 

 suitable distances: remembering .always to keep 



