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must be someAvhat different from that described in 

 paragraph 20. 



23. Your first trench must be opened in the man- 

 ner described in that paragraph ; but you must not 

 then proceed to turn the top of the next two feet 

 into the bottom of the trench. Let us suppose, 

 now, that you have your first trench, two feet wide 

 as before directed, open and clean. This being the 

 case, take a foot deep of the next tw^o feet all the 

 way along, and, for this once, throw it over the open 

 trench to add to the earth that you have already 

 throwni out of that trench. Then you will have the 

 bottom, foot of earth left. Dig out this and turn it 

 into the bottom of your open trench, and then the 

 first trench will be half filled up, and you will have 

 got your second trench open. Then go to a 7iew 

 two feet wide, that is the third two feet. Take the 

 top foot deep off from this, and throw it on the top 

 of the earth that you have just turned into the first 

 trench ; and then, where that first trench v/as there 

 will be earth two feet deep ; the bad soil at bottom 

 and the good soil at top. Then you go on regu- 

 larly. The bottom foot of the fourth two feet wide 

 piece you turn into the bottom of the second trench, 

 and the top foot of the third tw^o feet wide piece 

 you throw on the top of the earth which is at the 

 bottom of the second trench. And, thus, when you 

 have done, you will have moved all your ground 

 two feet deep, and will have the bad soil at bottom 

 and the good at top. 



24. At the end of your work, you will, of course, 

 have an open trench and a half; and this must be 

 filled up by carrying the earth, which came out of 

 the first trench, round in a cart or wheel-barrow, 

 and putting it into the space that you will have open 

 at last. For trees and asparagus, you ought to 



