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lified to conduct the operation well, and as it ought 

 to be done. Common country labourers are seldom 

 acquainted with planting operations, and require at 

 least a few weeks' practice before they can be safely 

 trusted ; therefore it is, that when a number of in- 

 experienced men are brought together to plant, the 

 work is always badly done ; and, consequently, is 

 seldom attended with success in the end. In planting 

 extensively, my method has always been, to prolong 

 the season of operations, and with a few experienced 

 men to do the work in a proper manner ; and by 

 so doing, I have generally been very successful. 



In reading the above assertion, many may bo 

 inchned to say, that if the weather were to prove 

 unfavourable, it would be impossible to get through 

 an extensive piece of planting with a few men in 

 one season ; and, at first sight, there appears, in- 

 deed, some reason in tliis objection : but I answer, 

 that very much depends upon the proper manage- 

 ment of [the work in hand. In planting exten- 

 sively, with a few good hands, I do not generally 

 begin at one end or side of the plantation, and make 

 good all the ground as the work proceeds, as is the 

 custom with many planters who employ a great 

 number of men at once. In almost every piece of 

 ground laid out for an extensive new plantation, 

 there is generally a variety of soils and situations 

 in it, and of this variety of soils and situations I 

 always take the advantage, thus : — when the wea- 



