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men who execute it, should take good care to 

 kill all remaining weeds, and wherever they left 

 the carrots double before, to set them out to the 

 proper distances. This being the third hoeing, 

 the land should be left in such order, as to require 

 no more work, or, at least, nothing more than 

 once going over it the latter end of August, to cut 

 up straggling weeds, which may by that time have 

 arisen. 



POTATOES. 



Another hand -hoeing must be given to the po- 

 tatoe crop, which should be so effectually per- 

 formed, as to preclude the necessity of any succeed-* 

 ing ones ; because the plants will be too much 

 grown to be hoed without damage in the operation, 

 The crops planted in rows for horse-hoeing must 

 have the second this month, given with the double 

 mould-board plough: it must split the ridge before 

 thrown up, and lay it equally to the rows. 



MADDER. 



Another hand-hoeing must be given to the mad- 

 der crops this month, in which the labourers must 

 be extremely attentive not to damage the crop ; 

 for the branches will be grown considerably, and 

 they are so remarkably brittle, that the least rough 

 Visage breaks and damages them : they must not 

 use longer than six or eight-inch hoes. The latter 

 end of the month, the first horse-hoeing should be 

 given. Put two horses, one before , the other, in 



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