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should be performed with common hoes, and the 

 men who execute it, should take good care to kill 

 all remaining weeds, and wherever they left the 

 carrots double before, to set them out to the pro- 

 per distances. This being the third hoeing, the 

 land should be left in such order, as to require no 

 more work, or, at least, nothing more than once 

 going over it the latter end of August, to cut up 

 straggling weeds, which may by that time have arisen. 

 POTATOES. 



Another hand-hoeing must be given the potatoe 

 crop, which should be so effectually performed, as 

 to preclude the necessity of any succeeding ones ; 

 because the plants will be too much grown to be 

 hoed without damage in the operation. The crops 

 planted in rows for horse-hoeing must have the 

 second this month, given with the double mold- 

 board plough : it must split the ridge before thrown 

 up, and lay it equally to the rows. 

 MADDER. 



Another hand-hoeing must be given to the mad- 

 der-crops this month, in which the labourers must 

 be extremely attentive net to damage the crop ; 

 for the brandies will be grown considerably, and 

 they are so remarkably brittle, that the least rough 

 usage breaks and damages them : they must not 

 use longer than six or eight- inch hoes. The latter 

 end of the month, the first horse-hoeing should be 

 given. Put two horses, one before the other, in 

 the swing-plough, and turn a furrow on each side 

 from the plants, which will consequently throw up 



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