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filled up, and you will have got your second 

 trench open. Then go to a new two feet wide, 

 that is the r/m*dtwo feet. Take the top foot deep 

 eff from this, and throw it on the top. of the earth 

 that you have just turned into the first trench ; 

 and then, where that first trench was there will be 

 earth two feet deep ; the bad soil at bottom and 

 the good soil at top. Then you go on regularly. 

 The l3ottom foot of the fourth two-feet wide piece 

 you turn into the bottom of the second trench, 

 and the top foot of the third two feet wide piece 

 you throw on the top of the earth which is at the 

 bottom of the second trench. And, thus, when 

 you have done, you will have moved all your 

 ground two feet deep, and will have the bad soil 

 at bottom and the good at top. 



24. At theend of your work, you will, of course, 

 have an open trench and a half; and this must be 

 filled up by carrying the earth, which came out 

 of tlve first trench, round in a cart or wheel-bar- 

 row, and putting it into the space that you will 

 have open at last. For trees and Asparagus, you 

 ought to do still more. See Asparagus, in Chap- 

 ter IV. 



25. It must be observed, however, that, though 

 the soil be good in its nature down to two feet 

 deep, that which comes to the top in the first 

 mode of trenching, will not be, immediately, so 

 good for use, as the soil which has been at top 

 for ages. It is, in such a case, of great advan- 

 tage to place the old top soil at the bottom ; 

 because when roots find the soil good to such a 

 depth, the plants and trees thrive and bear sur- 

 prisingly. But, then, the new top soil must be 

 exceedingly w r ell worked and well and judiciously 



