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a very good method. The great use of drilling 

 pease is, the rendering it so much easier to hand- 

 hoe them. Good farmers, whatever their soil, arc al- 

 ways desirous of getting the hand -hoe into as many 

 crops as possible, and few pay better for it than pease ; 

 but, when promiscuously sown, it is difficult and 

 expensive to perform that work well ; whereas, if 

 they are drilled in equally-distant rows, one foot 

 asunder, the hoeing is regular work : it will be ex- 

 ecuted much easier, better, and cheaper, and the 

 crop be consequently superior : for that operation, 

 given while the crop is quite young, checks the 

 weeds so much, at the same time that the crop is 

 forwarded, that the tendrils join the sooner, and 

 are much the stronger for it. Consequently, a 

 thick, luxuriant crop, is gained in a much greater 

 degree. Another advantage in this method is, the 

 saving of seed ; for a bushel, or a bushel and a 

 half less seed, will do in this way than in broad- 

 cast sowing. 



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There is scarcely an article of cultivation to be 

 treated of in a Calendar at present, in which a 

 double attention is not necessary, and which may 

 give an appearance of repetitions that are unne- 

 cessary. But when it is considered that there are 

 clearly two descriptions of farmers who ought to 

 find the use of such a work, being both inexpe- 

 rienced, such an idea will be found erroneous. 

 There are men who design only to pursue the prac- 

 tice of their own district, in which great improve- 



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