CHAPTER XV 

 HOW TO BRING LAND UNDER TILTH 



Scope of this Chapter. 



To attempt to tell in a chapter, very much limited, how 

 to bring land under tilth is rather a daring venture. 

 The subject is in itself so expansive, and has so many 

 divisions, each of which could be advantageously, but 

 then not exhaustively, made to form a volume equal 

 to this, that it requires great powers of compression 

 to be able to handle the subject at all. The object 

 here is not so much to give in detail the various opera- 

 tions needed to effect good cultivation, but rather to 

 point out the mode of procedure in converting unbroken 

 land into a garden, which will from its commencement 

 show favourable results. Having relieved myself of this 

 prelude, I turn to practical matters. 



Spade v. Plough. 



Many would advise that the land intended to be con- 

 verted into a vegetable garden should be ploughed. 

 Others would certainly have it dug with a spade. With 

 this latter sentiment I entirely agree. The plough is 

 a wonderful contrivance, notwithstanding its antiquity, 

 but in its present form it certainly does not equal in 

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