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manner described in Paragraph 20 ; but, in this 

 case, where there is a root always penetrating 

 downward, do not content yourself with a clean 

 trench two feet deep ; but, before you turn your top 

 earth into this trench^ put some good manure into 

 it, and dig it into this bottom part ; and then you 

 will have manure at two feet and nine inches from 

 the surface. Your ground being ready, lay out 

 your beds, four feet wide, with a path two feet wide 

 between each two beds. In the /aZZ, having made 

 all the ground right strong with manure, draw the 

 earth to six inches deep from the top of the beds 

 into the paths.^ which will then form high ridges. 

 Then draw your drills afoot apart j and sow your 

 seed, as before directed. When they are up, in 

 Epring, thin them to a foot apart. Thus you will 

 have them a foot apart all over the bed. Keep the 

 plants clean all summer ; and, when the haulm is 

 yellow in the fall, cut them off near, or close, to 

 the ground ; but, let the haulm be quite dead first ; 

 f et, do it before the frost actually sets in. When 

 you have cut off the haulm, lay some litter upon 

 the bed till spring, to prevent the frost from being 

 too long coming out of the ground in spring. 

 When the frost breaks up, throw some wood ashes, 

 or, some other manure about an inch deep over the 

 bed, having first loosened the top of the bed with 

 a fork. Upon this manure, throw earth over the 

 bed, out of the paths, three inches thick, and break 

 it very fine at the time. In the fall, cut down the 

 haulm again as before ; repeat the winter operation 

 of littering ; and, in the spring again fork up, put 

 on ashes or good mould, and the other three inches 

 deep of earth out of the paths. Thus you bring the 

 beds to be an inch or two higher than the paths ; 

 and this year, if your work have all been well done, 

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