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it from any degree of binding. While the men are 

 hoeing, they should never omit to stoop and pluck 

 out such weeds with their fingers, as grow among 

 the plants in the rows : this is highly necessary ; 

 for, if they are left, they will injure the young lu- 

 cerne much. Whoever cultivates this grass, must 

 absolutely determine to spare no expence in the 

 eradication of weeds. There is no plant will bear 

 the neighbourhood of weeds so badly, and espe- 

 cially while it is young. If the hand-hoes are ap- 

 plied in time, and often enough, the expence will 

 not be great ; but if, through saving, you defer 

 it till they are gotten much a-head, the crop will 

 either be lost, or the expence of cleaning enor- 

 mous. 



The old crops of drilled lucerne will be ready 

 for cutting this month. 



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The latter end of June, the sainfoin crops will, 

 in general, be ready to mow : they should always 

 be made into hay ; for no grass in the world an- 

 swers so well for that purpose. It is a common 

 thing to gain two tons per acre on dry land, 

 that with any other crop would yield none at all : 

 and the after-grass is extremely valuable, much 

 more so alone, than the former value of the land. 



Making the hay is the simplest of operations : 

 never offer to shake out the swath, for it should be 

 moved as little as possible, in order to preserve the 

 leaf; leave the swaths long enough according to 

 the weather, to be nearly made, then turn them 



over. 



