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ground, but much more fo to ground 

 where carrots are to be fown. 



THE reafon for fo much harrowing is, 

 that the ground may be all very fine the 

 depth of the plow ; for if the furface be 

 only fine and rough below, the clods will 

 ftop the fmall roots of the carrots in their 

 going down, and make them forked and 

 good for nothing. 



IF the ground was quite hard it would 

 be iuch better for them than rough ; for, 

 when rough and loofe, the fmall end, as 

 foo'n as it meets with the leaft obftrudtion, 

 (if the mould is loofe) the root bends, 

 and fo grows into many forks ; whereas if 

 the ground is all equally hard and free of 

 ftones, they will ftrike a great depth into 

 the hard ground* 



THE ground mould never lie any time 

 after the lafc plowing before it is fown ; 

 for if dry weather mould let in, the feed 

 will lie a long time before it comes up, 



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