454 OF HORSE-HOES. Part IV. 



" ments fo perfect, and directs his fervants with fuch fupericr judg- 

 " ment, that few can expe(3: eafily to equal him in the praftice of 

 *' the new huibandry. 



"Not being able, for the above reafons, to do with one turn of 

 " the cuhivator with two mould boards, what, as M, de Cliateau- 

 " vieux himlelf obferves, can frequently not be done with lefs than 

 *' three or four turns of the conmion plough, which added to the 

 " two turns that are given to fill up the furrow, make in all five or 

 *' fix turns ; I purlued, and with great advantage, nearly the method 

 " before defcribed. I fay nearly that method, becaufe I have made 

 " fome few alterations, by which I think it is rendered both eafier 

 " and better, 



"I.I make the mould-board twelve or thirteen inches d^eep, in- 

 " flead of nine or ten that it was before. The furrows are by this 

 " means made wider, and the plough is more eafily drawn, becaufe 

 " it finds more room to diltharge its load of earth in, andfufi-'ers lefs 

 " prefiiire. 



** 2. To give the fecond hoeing with the plough, inftead of con- 

 ** tinning to turn the earth over towards that fide of the alley where 

 *' I turned up but one furrow when I finifhed the firfl plowing, I, 

 " on the contrary, begin this fecond at that furrow, approaching, if 

 *' poflible, to within two or three inches of the row of corn ; and 

 " then I make a furrow in the contrary diredlion, which turns the 

 *' earth up againfi: that row. 



" My reafon for plowing fo near the rows, when I give this fecond 



*• hoeing, is, that I have obferved that the rains which fall pretty 



" frequently in the fpring, between the firft plowing and the fecond, 



** harden the earth greatly, arjd that drought afterwards hardens it 



" ftill more, fo that the roots of plants can no longer pierce or 



" fpead in it with eafe : and yet nothing is more necelTary, in order 



** to their being benefited by every culture of the earth, than that 



*' they fliould find an eafy pafi^age into the mould that lies next the 



** rows. It is therefore highly proper to ftir that mould, when the 



** fecond hoeing with the plough is given, which, with me, is when 



** the corn has begun to fpindle ; that being the time when the plants 



*' pufh with the greateft flrength, and when their roots ought con- 



*' fequently to begin to extend to fome diftance. 



*• 1 have not perceived that the plants have been at all hurt by the 

 ** plough's coming fo near them. They ought to be fo much the 

 ** lefs hurt thereby, as tlie rows are placed over a furrow which has 



" been 



