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fame furrow : and then alfo the land may be 

 hand-hoed in the partitions, between the two 

 rows of wheat ; and, as the horfe-hoeings are 

 to be repeated as often as the owner finds ne- 

 eeffary, the land in the intervals cannot be- 

 come ftale ; and upon that part of the land 

 which has been kept in fine tilth, the next 

 crop drilled again with wheat, or is to be 

 planted with a winter-crop, which fhould be 

 done without lofs of time, that the land may 

 carry a crop in winter, to be horfe-hoed ; 

 which may be fome of the cabbage kind, that 

 is moft fuitable to the farmer, for all the 

 plants of thefe kinds will grow well upon 

 iuch land. The farmer mould never allow 

 fuch land to lie idle and grow ftale. It will 

 bear conftant cropping, and the hoeing will 

 keep it always in heart : or it may be conve- 

 niently dreflTed for any crop, by laying the 

 manure in the furrows between the ridges ; 

 upon which the new ridges will fraud, and 

 the crops planted upon thefe ridges will ftand 

 over the manure as upon a hot-bed. Land 

 thus cultivated, being in narrow ridges, and 

 the ploughing and hceings made deep, the 

 corn or other crops {landing high on the tops 

 of the ridges will not be much liable to injury 

 from wet,- which may be carried off by means 

 of the deep furrows The land is foon pre- 

 pared in fpring for another crop, as of beans ; 

 and thefe may be fucceeded by wheat, for 

 which no other preparation is neceflary, but 



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