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was fo great, that fome farmers who faw it 

 were fo much {truck with it, that they imme- 

 diately attempted to cultivate it in that me- 

 thod, and continue there to do fo. In Ja* 

 maica likewife, and fbme other of the Weft- 

 India Iflands, they are extremely attentive to 

 provide great quantities of manure for their 

 fugar-canes ; fo that they keep there a great 

 number of cattle, for the fole purpofe of pro- 

 viding dung for their fugar-plantations. They 

 likewife employ great numbers of negroes to 

 hand-hoe them; yet, notwithftanding, thefe 

 are all far inferior to horfe-hoeing, an example 

 of which is related by Mr. Miller, in his Dic- 

 tionary, under the article Saccharum. 



" 1 have," fays he, ' been aflu red, by two 

 " of the moft lenfible and judicious planters 

 " in America, that they have made fome ex- 

 " periments of the horfe-hoeing culture for 

 " their canes, which anfvvered much beyond 

 their expectations. One of thefe gentlemen 

 " told me, he planted an acre in the middle 

 " of a large piece of canes, in rows at five 

 ' feet afunder, and the hills were two feet 

 ' and a half diftant, and but one cutting to 

 * to each hill. The ground between the 

 " rows was from time to time ftirred with the 

 * horle-plough, to deftroy the weeds, and 

 44 earth the plants. With this culture, the 

 * canes were double the tize of thofe in the 

 " fame piece, which were cultivated in the 

 " ufual way : and when the canes were cut, 



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