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feaker takes notice the cabbage-ground was, 

 with the fame tillage) ; and therefore this 

 land required only once ploughing of the 

 ridges to prepare it for the next crop ; and 

 ridges are alfo ploughed .with lefs labour, and 

 at fewer furrows, than the fame extent of land 

 that lies level. 



5. Land lying in ridges is not only ploughed 

 and prepared for a fucceeding crop in a (horter 

 time, and at a lefs expence, than land that 

 lies flat ; but the earth of the horfe-hoed 

 ridges is likewife much richer, though it 

 produced a larger crop than the level ground 

 fown broad-cart. For the land that is ploughed 

 deep, turned, and a new furface expofed to 

 the air at every horfe-hoeing, is receiving 

 new fupplies of the pabulum, aliment, or food 

 of plants, all the time it is thus cultivated ; 

 and the level ground, not cultivated with the 

 hoe-plough, is loiing the vegetable aliment 

 all that time. If the fucceeding crop requires 

 ridges of the fame breadth, all the cultivator 

 has to do is, to plough back the ridges upon 

 the prefent furrows, and then the middle of 

 the new ridges will be compofed of fine earth, 

 well pulverized by the former horfe-hoeings, 

 and impregnated with nutritious alimest re- 

 ceived from the atmofphere. 



6. We fee, in the prefent cafe, that the 

 horfe-hoeing makes a great faving of manure ; 

 half only of what is given to broad-caft tur- 

 nips was made ufc of here j and, in fomc 



I 3 crops, 



