JULY. 



pends on the season : if the weeds grow, let them 

 be killed ; for the best rule in this matter is, to hoe 

 sufficiently to keep the crop perfectly clean, and to 

 horse-hoe whenever the intervals have been bound 

 by rains or otherwise. 



The crop planted last month must be hand-hoed 

 before the middle of this : in which work you 

 should be attentive to cut up all the young weeds 

 that grow near the plants, and break all the land 

 on the tops of the ridges : but the men need not 

 hoe the sides of them or the furrows, as the plough 

 in horse-hoeing will cut them much better. Some 

 fresh earth should also be drawn to each plant, 

 earthing it up as it were. The first horse-hoeing 

 should be given soon after; in which operation 

 the plough should take off a furrow from the 

 ridges on each side, and throw up a small ridge in 

 the middle of each interval, which will let the air 

 into the earth on which the plants stand, and pul- 

 verize and sweeten it. The cabbages will be left on 

 a narrow slip of earth, ready for the second hand- 

 hoeing, which will be given with great ease. 



This work must, however, be done with much 

 care and attention, for if the plants are left in too 

 .small a space, and the sun be powerful, they will 

 suffer : the stripe of earth the plants are left in 

 should be nine inches wide ; and, if the weather is 

 very hot, a furrow turned back again, at least on 

 one skle, as soon as may be. Afterwards the horse- 

 hoeing should be given with the shim of three 

 shares ; one loiv, for cutting tke bottom of the 



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