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dug three or four feet deep : the land is em- 

 ployed in the preparation and crop of madder 

 three or four years ; and then it is dug up, 

 and well-broken, to get out all the madder- 

 roots, and this digging is alfo about four feet 

 deep : the fame land is not ufually replanted 

 with madder immediately, but with wheat or 

 other crops for four years or more; not 

 being thought proper for madder, till it has 

 been planted with corn, or other crops, for 

 feveral years. Wheat ufually fucceeds mad- 

 der, but the land is iiot dreffed with dung, or 

 any manure, for wheat j yet it is found, that 

 after fuch deep digging, if the feafon is at all 

 favourable, they are fure of a great crop of 

 wheat ; and that the benefit of fuch digging 

 continues for feveral fucceeding crops. 



The crop of wheat, cultivated as above, 

 is reaped at a lefs expence than the broad-caft, 

 and, being perfectly clean from weeds, is foon 

 in order to be carried home,, which is no 

 fmall advantage in a catching harveft. 



Good Hulbandmen begin plowing, their 

 land early in autumn, to prepare it for the 

 next crop, for which three plowings are often 

 neceflary, fometimes more ; but the farmer, 

 who underftands the Hoeing Hufbandry, will 

 not lofe five or fix months, and be at that ex- 

 pcnce, merely as a preparation for a crop next 

 fiimmer. He may have a crop in winter, which 

 will defray the expence of winter-fallow- 

 ing, and bring him fome profit bdidcs. 

 l Land 



