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than to give them a great deal of food, by hoeing all the alleys at 

 once, and aftenvards leave them double the time without any ctrl- 

 ture at all*. 



This method of hoeing the alternate alleys, is attended with this 

 advantage, that in cafe of hot dry weather, the plants are not killed; 

 and heavy rains will do them the lefs damage : but it will not fo ef- 

 fe»5lually deftroy weeds, which is always one of the great objcdls of. 

 the new hufbandry. 



Tho' the horfe-hoe has approached the turneps as near as poffible, 

 it will be neceifary to hand-hoe the fpaces between them. This 

 may be done at a fmall expence, as the other hoe has already ftirred 

 almoft all the ground. An expert hufbandman will bring the horfe- 

 hoe within two or inches of the plants. 



When the turneps are grown large, there is no occafion to come fO' 

 near them, left their roots be hurt: nor is it neceflary to hoe them,., 

 till they are about the bignefs of one's finger's end. 



All plants fown in fingle rows, are greatly benefited by this hoeing-: 

 of the alternate alleys. For, i. Four of thefe hoeings, which coft no ' 

 more than two entire ones, are almoft as beneficial to the plants as four - 

 complete hoeings. 2. A plant which finds a great dealof nouriftimentr 

 en one fide, is better able to thrive without receiving fo much on the : 

 other. '^.If, in hoeing very near the plant, fomc of the roots are 

 broke, thofe on the fide not hoed, fupply the wants of the plant, till* 

 the broken roots have made frefli ftioots. 4, We may therefore ap- ^ 



* " When the turneps are fown. in drills," fays Mr. MiUer, Art. Ra fa, " it wSl 

 •« be the beft way to hoe between every other row at lirft, and fome time after to hoe 

 " the alternate intervals, by which method the plants will receive more benefit from 

 " the often ftirriiig of the ground, than they would do, if ail the intervals were hoed at 

 '■'onetime; and the plants will be in lefs danger of fuftering from the earth being 

 •' thrown up too high on fome rows, while othars may be left too bare of earth ; but 

 ♦•^ when the earth has been thrown up on one fide of the drill, it may be turned down 

 »' again before the next interval is hoed, nnd this alternate moving of the earth will 

 *' prepare the ground very well for the fucceeding crop, as well as greatly improve 

 «^ the turneps : but as this plough cannot welt be drawn nearer to the drills than two 

 '<■•■ or three inches, the remaining ground fliould be forked, to ioofen the parts, and 

 " make way for tlie fibres of the roots to ftrike out into the intervals; otherwife, if 

 ♦' the land is ftrong, it will become fo' hard in thofe places which are not ftirred, as 

 '»■ to ftint the growth of the turneps; and this maybe done at a-fmall expenee : a 

 »■' iTood hand will perform a great deal of this work in a day, and whoever will make 

 ♦'• the trial, will find their account in pra^lifmg it, efpecially on all ftrong land, 

 " where the turneps are much more liable to fuffcr from the binding of the ground, 

 i' than they will be on a loofc foil: but yet, in all forts of ground, it will be of great 

 "■ jirvice to praftife this." 



Z ' proach 



