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and of a healthy deep-green colour, in confe- 

 quence of them. 



The partitions or narrow ten-inch fpaces be- 

 tween the too rows of wheat, (hould be well and 

 deeply hand-hoed, and alfo the narrow flips on 

 the outfides of the rows ; which may be done 

 before the intervals are horfe-hoed, or before 

 the earth is turned back to the rows, accord- 

 ing as the weeds are more or lefs advanced ; 

 and at the fame time the weeds and natural 

 grafs (hould be carefully drawn up out of the 

 rows by hand. Once hand-hoeing the partitions 

 is generally fufficient to keep down the weeds, 

 and the wheat growing up and fpindling (hades 

 thejweeds fo much, that they cannot make much 

 progrefs afterwards. It is, however, a matter 

 of importance to keep the land very clean, and 

 that the weeds (hould never grow up high, 

 much lefs (hould they ever be fuffered to run 

 to feed ; to prevent this, it may be advifeable, 

 when weeds grow faft, to give the partitions a 

 fecond deep hand-hoeing, with a common 

 hand-hoe, and another hand-weeding of the 

 partitions, and the narrow flips may be hoed 

 with a Dutch hoe, which is called fcuffiing, 

 and kills the weeds by cutting them off near 

 the furface of the ground. A fecond hand- 

 hoeing is of more advantage to the crop and 

 to the land than the expence of it, and par- 

 ticularly if deeply hand- hoed, for that loolens, 

 turns, and improves the ground betwixt the 

 rows, which has no other affiftance during 

 the growth of the crop ; but the intervals be- 

 tween 



