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to their total deftrudYion. By not paying due attention 

 to this particular, more plants fuffer than by all other 

 accidents put together, at leaft in moift fituations. In- 

 deed this precaution is perhaps more neceflary in Ire- 

 land, than in England or Scotland. 



ID fuch cafes, the boys are furniftied with fmall 

 hooks or fickles, which are alfo numbered, and 

 charged to them ; and, upon fuch occafions, a boy is 

 found of more ufe than a man. 



In the latter part of the quarter, boys are employed 

 to great advantage, in trenching ground, and digging 

 nurferies. In thefe works the weakeft of them are 

 placed at the lighteft and eafieft parts. In the former, 

 marking out the lines for the trenchers, and Ihovelling 

 up the crumbling mould from the trenches, are works 

 fuitable to their ftrength. In the latter, cleaning the 

 rows of plants, before the diggers, is a kind of bufi- 

 nefs, to which boys are well calculated. Thus, by a 

 judicious diftribution of the whole, no part can be ufe- 

 lefsly employed. 



Collecting various kinds of feeds is peculiarly fuited 

 to boys, as their dexterity in climbing gives them the 

 preference to men. Upon thofe occafions they are 

 generally tafked\ that is, each of them muft produce a 

 certain meafure every evening, after the day's gather- 

 ing, and continue the fame allowance fo long as the 

 feeds continue plenty. But the ufual way is, to pay fo 



much 



