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earth of the new two feet, and placing it on the 

 topjof the earth just turned into the bottom of 

 the trench. Thus, when you have again sho- 

 velled out the bottom, and put it on the top of 

 the whole that you have put into the trench, you 

 have another clean trench two feet wide and two 

 deep. You thus proceed, till the whole of your 

 garden-ground be trenched: and then it will 

 have been cleanly turned over to the depth of two 

 feet. 



21. As to the expense of this preparatory 

 operation, a man that knows how to use a spade, 

 will trench four rod in a day very easily in the 

 month of October, or in the month of Novem- 

 ber if the ground be not frozen. Supposing the 

 garden to contain an acre, and the labourer to 

 earn a dollar a day, the cost of this operation 

 will, of course, be forty dollars; which, per- 

 haps, would be twenty dollars above the expense 

 of the various ploughings and harrowings, ne- 

 cessary in the other way ; but, the difference irt 

 the value of the two operations is beyond all 

 calculation. There is no point of greater im- 

 portance than this. Poor ground deeply moved 

 is preferable, in many cases, to rich ground 

 with shallow tillage ; and when the ground has 

 been deeply moved once, it feels the benefit for 

 ever after. A garden is made to last for ages ; 

 what, then, in such a case, is the amount of 

 twenty dollars ? It is well known to all who 

 have had experience on the subject, that of two 

 plants of almost any kind that stand for the 

 space of three months in top soil of the same 

 quality, one being on ground deeply moved, and 

 the other on ground moved no deeper than is 





