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much rbonger. This Hoeing fhould 

 be repeated two or three times 

 while the Plants are young, ac- 

 cording as the Weeds are produced, 

 obferving always to do it in dry 

 Weather, that the Weeds may the 

 better be deftroy'd, for if it be 

 done in moid Weather, they v/ill 

 root and grow again. 



With this Management, tlie 

 Plants will grow to the Height of 

 two Feet or more by the Begin- 

 ning of Augufly when the Flowers 

 will begin to appear j at which 

 time it ffiould be cut, obferving to 

 do it in a dry Seafon, and keep it 

 often turn'd, that it may foon dry, 

 and be carry 'd off the Ground, for 

 if it lie long upon the Roots, it 

 will prevent their lliooting again : 

 After the Crop is taken off, you 

 fliould ftir the Ground between 

 the Rows with a Breaft-Plough, to 

 kill the Weeds and loofen the Sur- 

 face, which will caufe the Plants 

 to fhoot again in a fliort time, fo 

 that by the Beginning of Septem- 

 hevy there will be Shoots four or 

 five Inches high j when you may 

 turn in Sheep upon it to feed it 

 down, for it will not be (it to cut 

 again the fame Seafon, nor fhould 

 the Shoots be fuffer'd to remain 

 upon the Plants, which would de- 

 cay when the frofty Weather comes 

 on, and fall down upon the Crov/n 

 of the Roots, and prevent their 

 lliooting early the fucceeding Spring. 



So that the beft Way is to feed 

 it until November, when it will 

 have done fhooting for that Sea- 

 fon : But it fiiould not be fed by 

 large Cattle the firft Year, becauic 

 the Roots being young would be 

 in danger of being dcihoy'd either 

 by their trampling upon them, or 

 their pulling them out of the 

 Ground : »But Sheep will be of Ser- 

 vice ta the Roots by dunging the 



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Ground, and they will not eat ir 

 too clofe, fo as to endanger the 

 Crown of the Roots. The Begin- 

 ning of February, the Ground be- 

 tween the Roots fliould be again 

 flirred with the Plough, to encou- 

 rage them to fhoot again i but in 

 doing of this, you fhould be care- 

 ful not to injure the Crown of the 

 Roots, upon which the Buds are 

 at that time very turgid, and rea:- 

 dy to pufh. With this Manage- 

 ment (if the Soil be warm) by the 

 Beginning of March the Shoots 

 will be five or fix Inches high, 

 when, if you are in want of Fod- 

 der, you may feed it down till a 

 Week in April: After which it 

 r^ould be fuffcr'd to grow for a 

 Crop, which will be fit to cut the 

 Beginning of yune ; when you 

 fliould obferve to get it off the 

 Ground as foon as poffible, and flip 

 the Ground again with the Plough, 

 which will forward the Plants 

 fhooting again, fb that by the 

 Middle or latter End of July there 

 will be another Crop fit to cut, 

 which mufi: be managed as before; 

 After which, it fliould be fed down 

 again in Autumn, and as the Roots 

 by this time will have taken deep 

 Hold in the Ground, fo there will 

 be little Danger of hurting them, 

 if you fhould turn in larger Cattle ;. 

 but you mufl always obferve not 

 to fuifer them to remain after the 

 Roots have done fhooting, lefl they 

 fhould eat down the Crown of the 

 Roots below the Buds, whicli 

 would confiderably damage, if not 

 deflroy them. 



In this manner you may conti- 

 nue confrantly to have two Crops^ 

 to cut, and two Feedings upon 

 this Plant; and in good Seaions 

 there may be three Crops cut, and 

 two Feedings, which will be a 

 great Improvement, eipecially as 



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