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one foot wide. Put in well-rotted cattle 

 or hog manure to a depth of six inches, 

 and cover it with a like depth of soil 

 taken from the side of the trench. The 

 two layers are then to be thoroughly mixed, 

 and when completed the bottom instead 

 of being left flat is to be raked so as to 

 make a mound, higher in the middle than 

 at the sides. The plants are to be set 

 twelve inches asunder. The trenches 

 made five feet apart. The objection thus 

 mounding the bottom of the trench is that 

 when a heavy shower falls we escape a 

 disaster which often befalls us under the 

 flat system, viz : the smothering of many 

 plants by dirt washed from the banks of 

 the ditch. Some more hardy, or it may be 

 less thickly covered than the rest, may 



struggle through to the surface, but the 

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