S4 FEBRUARY. 



every flag of nine or ten inches breadth ; some far- 

 mers one row on such a furrow : and I have known 

 very good crops in most of these distances. If 

 horse-hoeing, or much hand- hoeing, is intended, 

 double rows at nine inches, with intervals of 1 8, do 

 well; but the greatest crops I have known, have 

 been from planting every flag. 



QUANTITY OF SEED PEASE. 

 From two to two bushels and a half per acre is 

 the usual quantity, in planting every flag. If they 

 are drilled at greater distances, six or seven pecks 

 will do. Some have trusted to one bushel per acre, 

 but that quantity is too small. 



BORDERS. 



This is a proper season for bringing the borders 

 of the enclosure's into good order. They are gene- 

 rally found to be high, irregular ridges of land, 

 from earth thrown out of ditches, and not carted 

 away, and from the turning of the ploughs and 

 harrows. They are often over-run with bushes and 

 wood, and much land is thereby lost. The best 

 tnethod to be used with them, is first to cut all the 

 ttood, and make it into faggots, and then to grub 

 up the roots, and make them into stacks, for which 

 work labourers are generally paid by the piece. It is 1 

 proper to agree with them for raising the earth into 

 a high ridge in the middle of the border. In most 

 countries; this will be done for 6s. to 10s. a stack, 

 of the roots 10 feet long, three high, and three 



broad ; 



