J70 VEGETATING-IROCESS. rr. 



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VEGETATING -PROCESS. 



I. IT HAS already been obferved, that 

 ROLLING crops is feldom praflifed in this coun- 

 try ; unlefs to fmooth the furl'ace, in a flight 

 degree, as a preparation for the fithe. 



II. Hoeing is ftill Icfs in practice ; except 

 for TURNEps, and fometimes for the furrows of 



WHEAT. 



III. Hand-weeding is, however, carefully 

 attended to by farmers in general j and is, 

 generally, performed by the acre : — a pradlice 

 I have not met with elfewhere ; though moft 

 eligible to be adopted in every Diftrid : a far- 

 mer has not a more difagrecable ta(k than that 

 of attending to weeders by the day. The 

 price is, of courfe, proportioned to the foulnefs 

 of the crop to be weeded : — from fixpcnce tq 

 five Ihillings an acre is given. 



IV. 



