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the more nourishment from it; particularly 

 if the means of obtaining and communicating 

 that nourishment to them, is continued during 

 the time of their growth as it is found to be 

 by hoeing, and more efpecially by deep or 

 horfe-hoeing : this will be obvious to every 

 farmer: for thefe effects are extremely ob- 

 vious to every pracHfer k of this Husbandry, who 

 gives his land due tillage, hoeing, and ex- 

 pofure. There are feveral methods of hoeing, 

 performed by different inftruments, and that 

 have different effects. The firil is the hand- 

 hoeing, which is praclifed by all gardeners, 

 and now known to moft farmers. It is very 

 ufeful to cut down weeds ; but does not go 

 deep in the ground ; and for that reafon the 

 effect of it is but fuperficial ; particularly the 

 Dutch hoe, which cuts off the tops of the 

 weeds very near the furface, and this hoeing 

 is called fcuffing. 2. The hoe drawn by 

 horles, fome of them intended only to kill the 

 weeds, cutting the tops of them clofe to the 

 furfice, as the (him or (kim of Kent ; which 

 is a hoe made of a plate of iron, the fore part 

 of which is made Ibarp to cut the weeds. 

 This and other plate hoes cut much in the 

 'fame manner as the Dutch hoe ; they fcutfle 

 the furface of the ground, but more expe- 

 ditioufly and cheaper, being drawn by a horfe. 

 Some are made to go deeper in the ground, 

 as the_nidget; which has three triangular 

 faiall hoes fixed in a frame : thefe go deeper 



