452 O F H O R S E-H O E S. Part IV. 



** diflike to the new hufbandry. My horfes were led by hand, till 

 ** they were fufficiently accuflomed to this work: but that was ne- 

 " ceflary only for the firfl furrow, which they afterwards follow of 

 " their own accord, by which means the refl of the alley is plowed 

 " with great eafe. 



" The earth of the fecond furrow, which is cut very near the 

 *' rows, is turned over in the fame diredlion as that of the firftj that 

 " is to fay, from the bed. 



" The third furrow is plowed the contrary way, and the earth is 

 " now turned over towards the rows, fo that the lafl furrow is filled 

 " up by this, and a confiderable quantity of well divided earth is 

 " turned over to the rows, for the plants to extend their roots in 

 ** the fpring. 



" I then continue plowing in the fame direftion, cutting the fur- 

 *' row that is turned over towards the rows as thick as poflible, till 

 " the whole alley is plowed almofl clofe to the oppofite bed, when, 

 *• by turning ever one large furrow on that fide, the fmall one cut 

 *' there at firfl is filled up, By this means the firft fpring hoeing is 

 " completely executed. 



" I begin the fecond plowing on the fide where I ended the firft, 

 " turning the earth over that way, which is the contrary of what 

 " was done before i and when I come to the other fide of the alley, 

 ** I leave there, as was left before on the fide I now begin at, the 

 *' width of a fmall furrow, which I do not plow, but over which I 

 " turn the earth of my laft furrow. 



" I think this fecond hoeing may be deferred, when the ground 

 " does not produce many weeds: and in this cafe I perform it with 

 " the cultivator, which I bring almoft clofe to the rows. 



" After thus ufing, fometimes the plough, and fometimes the cul- 

 " tivator, according as the condition of the ground feems to require, 

 " I finifli all my hoeings by faftening two horfes to the cultivator, 

 " and drawing it once or twice through the middle of the alleys ; 

 " becaufe it cuts four or five inches deeper than the plough." 



M. de Villiers adds, that he could not always turn the earth over 

 towards the rows, as M. Duhamel diredls, becaufe the wheel of his 

 plough, getting too deep in the middle furrow, altered the diredlion 

 of the fliare. To this M. Duhamel obferves, that he himfelf met 

 with the fame difiiculty, and found no other way of remedying it, 

 but by opening a fmall furrow near the rows, by the help of which 

 jie turned the earth over towards the alleys, and tJien filled up that 



furrow 



