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of three times the breadth of your foot. Having 

 lhaped the bed by thefe means, and being pro- 

 vided with a wooden-headed or cuffing rake, 

 (land on the alley of the oppofite fide of the bed ; 

 turn the rake on its back, and pufh off the earth 

 from the one half of the bed to the purpofed 

 depth, as far as the fide of the alley marked by 

 your feet, being careful to keep the earth fo pufh- 

 ed off quite ftraight. When one fide is finifhed, 

 turn round and do the ouier in the fame manner. 

 Having completed the cuffing of the bed, carry 

 the rotted haws, in a clofe-wrought baiket, in 

 one hand, and with the other lift them out ; and, 

 \vith a fuclden dam, caft them along the half of 

 the bed next to you ; turn round and do the o- 

 ther iide in the fame manner. If your feeds are 

 good, they mould lye within one fourth of ail 

 inch of each other. Having completed the oper- 

 ation of fowing, if the (late of the feeds will al- 

 low, draw a roller of about fixty pounds weight, 

 und exactly the breadth of the bed, along it, 

 which will prefs in the feeds, fo as they will 

 maintain their place during the operation of draw- 

 ing on the earth again, which is prefently to be 

 done. If, however, the feeds are too morft to 

 allow the roller to pafs over them without flicking 

 to it, beat them in with the back of the i'pade. 

 The operation of fixing them in the foil being 

 performed by one or other of thefe means, take 



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