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supports the weight of the cart and lead, instead of 

 the fill-horse in large carts: they do not hold more 

 than fifteen bushels; such will do for winter-cart- 

 ing on grass-lands, without poaching. If the draft 

 is not distant, three or four men will thus be em- 

 ployed by one horse, which is an excellence that 

 no other machine can boast. Now let any atten- 

 tive cultivator reflect on the importance of an odd 

 horse performing much of the carting of a farm, 

 while the others are going regularly on with their 

 tillage or road-work. Whoever will consider this 

 comparison in the proper light, will be sensible 

 that it is an economical way of carrying on bu- 

 siness. 



MADDER. 



In case the season in the spring proved so unfa- 

 vourable to planting madder, that the work was 

 delayed until the last week of May, or the first of 

 June, the fields so planted should now be horse or 

 hand-hoed, as most wanting. The best way is to 

 use the shim ; not for turning a ridge against the 

 rows, as the plants will yet be too weak for that 

 operation, but merely to loosen the earth of the 

 intervals, thereby to kill the weeds. Hand-hoeing 

 and weeding should depend on the number of the 

 weeds that arise among the plants. Let the culti- 

 vator of madder, through the whole process of the 

 crop, remember, that he must be to the full as ac- 

 curate as a gardener: his soil must be rendered but 

 little inferior to a dung-hill : all weeds must be for 



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