PROPAGATION AND CHAP. 



by line and hoe ! When the drills are made, the beans 

 are laid in at proper distances, then covered with a light 

 harrow j and after all comes the roller, with the teeth 

 lifted up of course -, and all is smooth and neat. The ex- 

 pense of such an apparatus is, really, nothing worth 

 notice. , 



94. In order to render the march of the ox straight, 

 my ground was ploughed into lands, one of which took 

 the ten rows of kidney-beans ; so that the ox had only 

 to be kept straight along upon the middle of the land. 

 And, in order, to have the lands fiat, not arched at all, the 

 ground was ploughed twice in this shape, which brought 

 the middle of the lands where the furrows were before. 

 If, however, the ground had been flat-ploughed, without 

 any furrow, there would have been no difficulty. I should 

 have started on a straight side, or on the straightest side, 

 leaving out any crook or angle that there might have 

 been. I should have taken two distinct objects, found, 

 or placed, beyond the end of the work, and should have 

 directed the head of the ox in a line with those two ob- 

 jects. Before I started, I should have measured off the 

 width to find where the ox ought to come to again, and 

 then have fixed two objects to direct his coming back. I 

 should have done this at each end, till the piece had been 

 finished. 



95. When the seeds, in the garden-sowing, are pro- 

 perly, and at suitable distances, placed in the drills, rake 

 the ground, and, in all cases, tread it with your feet, 

 unless it be very moist. Then rake it slightly again - } for 

 all seeds grow best when the earth is pressed closely 



