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hoeing before the expiration of this month : that 

 work should he clone with eight-inch hoes, and 

 very carefully ; for the young plants will not hear 

 rough treatment of any kind, heing of a most brit- 

 tle nature. It will not be advisable to horse-hoe 

 yet. 



LIQUORICE. 



The young crop of liquorice must be hand-hoed 

 in May, and carefully hand-weeded at the same 

 time. In common management, this is not well 

 done, owing to the cropping the ground the first 

 year with onions or carrots, both which, or any 

 other plant, are but so many weeds, that rob the 

 principal produce. 



WHEAT FALLOW. 



If the farmer fallows for wheat, which is, how- 

 ever, but an unprofitable practice, according to 

 the modern ideas of husbandry, the land should re- 

 ceive an earth this month, to turn in the \veeds 

 that have arisen since the last. The maxim of 

 making the fallows very fine in April, to destroy 

 the weeds by a ploughing in May, or the begin- 

 ning of June, is in general good ; for how are they 

 to be killed, if they do not vegetate ? If the fal- 

 lows are left rough in the common manner, the 

 seeds of weeds arc shut up in the clods : they are 

 broken by the time the wheat seed is sown : must 

 not the consccjiieiici: be their growing among the 

 wheat ? But it has been urged, that on rich clays 

 this practice would not be proper, on account of 

 such spring tillage as I have described, cutting in 



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