72 O/Hoeing, Chap. VI. 



Improver of the Soil ; except it mould be fuch, as 

 might occafion Trouble, by filling it full of its (hat- 

 ter'd Seeds, which might do the Injury of Weeds 

 to the next Crop ; and except fuch Plants, which 

 have a vaft Bulk to be maintained a long Time, as 

 Turnep-Seed (a). 



The wider the Intervals are, the more Earth may 

 be divided •, for the Row takes up the fame Room 

 with a wide, or a narrow Interval ; and therefore with 

 the wide, the unho'd Part bears a lefs Proportion to 

 the ho\d Part than in the narrow. 



And 'tis no Purpofe to hoe, where there is not 

 Earth to be ho'd, or Room to hoe it in. 



There are many Ways of Hoeing with the Hoe- 

 Plough •, but there is not Room to turn Two deep 

 clean Furrows in an Interval that is narrower than 

 Four Feet Eight Inches ; for if it want much of this 

 Breadth, one, at leail, of thefe Furrows, will reach, 

 and fall upon the next Row, which will be very inju- 

 rious to the Plants; except of grown St. Foin, and 

 fuch other Plants, that can bear to have the Earth 

 pull'd off them by Harrows. 



Thus much of Hoeing in general may fuffice : 

 And different Sorts of Plants requiring different Ma- 

 nagement; that may more properly be defcribed 

 in the Chapter, where particular Vegetables are 

 treated of. 



It may not be amifs to add, that all Sorts of 

 Land are not equally proper for Hoeing : I take it, 

 that a dry friable Soil is the ben:. Intractable wet 

 Clays, and fuch Hiils as are too ileep for Cattle 

 to draw a Plough up and down them, are the molt 

 improper (J?). 



(a) Turneps run to Seed, not till the fecond Summer. 



(b) For by hoeing crofs the Hill, the Furrow turn'd againfi 

 the Declivity cannot be thrown up near enough to the Row aoove 

 it ; and the Furrow that is turiVd downwards will bury the Row 

 JDelow 2E. 



That 



