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sufficiently to keep the crop perfectly clean, and to 

 horse-hoe whenever the intervals have been hound 

 by ruins or otherwise. 



The crop planted last month must he handw 

 hoed before the middle of this : in which work 

 you should be attentive to cut up all the young 

 weeds that grow near the plants, and break all the 

 land on the tops of the ridges ; but the men need 

 not hoe the sides of them or the furrows, as the 

 plough in horse-hoeing will cut them much better. 

 Some fresh earth should also be drawn to each 

 plant; earthing it up as it were. The first horse- 

 hoeing should be given soon after ; in \vhich ope- 

 ration the plough should take off a furrow from the 

 ridges on each side, and throw up a small ridge in 

 the middle of each interval,, which will let the air 

 into the earth on which the plants stand, and pul- 

 verize and sweeten it. The cabbages will be left on 

 a narrow slip of earth, ready for the second hand- 

 hoeing, which will be given with great ease. 



This work must, however,, be done with much 

 care and attention, for if the plants are left in too 

 small a space, and the sun be powerful, they will 

 suffer : the stripe of earth the plants are left in 

 should be nine inches wide ; and, if the weather is 

 very hot, a furrow turned back again, at least on 

 one side, as soon as may be. Afterwards the horse- 

 hoeing should be given with the shim of three 

 shares ; one low, for cutting the bottom of the 

 furrow in the intervals, and two others, four inches 

 higher (being drawn up at pleasure through the 

 p d 4 block), 



