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roughly manured, from forty to fifty tons, 

 which is full ten times greater than the 

 iuce of that neighbourhood ; and I 

 aid not exaggerate, if I laid twenty 

 times greater than the average of all unhoe- 

 ing countries ; a difference fo prodigious, 

 that it is really aflonifhing landlords do not 

 exert themfelves to introduce the practice. 



But when I fpeak of hoeing in general, 



I would never be underftood to mean fuch 



Lng as I have fecn more than once in un- 



hoei: it, tries. In the Raft-Riding of 



Xorkfhire they hoe in fome places, but in fo 



Hovenly a manner, that I would not give 



nee a field for the operation ; and yet 



it is done but once, and reckoned a great 



in good ttuibandry. Turneps mould 



always be hoed twice, and every plant fet 



out from twelve to eighteen inches diftance, 



according to the ftrength of the foil, and 



not a weed fuffercd to grow. 



But in what manner, fay fome, is this 



. to be effected ? I reply, not with- 



. trouble ; a man muft not expect to 



with his foot, and have hoed plants 



a the foil. Thentft object is to 



i rit into the hoeing hufbandry 



, and not be contented with the 



:rs of the neighbourhood^ if they do not 



I the work in perfection : Men 



. . ily enough to be procured in even? 



' of prftain, thai will change their re- 



fidence 



