12 OF RAISING WOOD 



MAKE the holes at three feet cliftance 

 as deep as the foil will allow, and one foot 

 broad, if the ground is not very ftony at 

 top. The readieft method is to pare off 

 the fiirface with a paring fpade ; but if 

 (tony, the broad end of the ax-hole will 

 be the belt. If grafs, pare it off as thin 

 as poflible, lay it afide, dig out the earth, 

 and lay the pared furface into the bottom, 

 laying in the earth in the form of 'a mole- 

 hill, to remain until the (eafon for plant- 

 ing and fowing. This work fliould be 

 performed early in fummer for the rains 

 to moilten the earth, which is always very 

 dry when turned up, and there is no dan- 

 ger of weeds growing on fuch land. The 

 arth being laid up round will have more 

 advantage of being mellowed by the wea~ 

 ther ; and when the planting feafon comes, 

 there is nothing to do but to level the 

 ground even with the furface and plant. 



A MAN can make three hundred holes 

 in a day, and two men may plant a thou- 



fand, and do them well. 



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