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But to preferve this crop after they 

 are firft come up, you are to hoe up the 

 earth on each fide of them, fo as that 

 the tops may but juft appear above ground, 

 which done, and thinking they will not 

 grow any more that feafon, lay fome 

 fine cole-afhes or fea fand upon the lit- 

 tle ridge you have made with your hoe, 

 and after th. e, except you have a cover 

 made like a hog s back, of reed or bee- 

 hive ftraw, lay fome clean wheat-ftraw 

 fo as that they may be covered all over > 

 and in cafe that any fnow falls, when it 

 is over fhake it off, and pull all the 

 ftraw away, and then lay on more that is 

 clean, and if it's poflible dry the old well 

 and then lay it again, becaufe it's the fnow 

 that fpoils the peafe and beans as much 

 as any thing 5 but when they come to 

 grow high, and above the ridge that you 

 make with your hoe, it is a kind of 

 misfortune that can't be remedied by a- 

 ny thing but thofe hog- backed coverings ; 

 nor indeed fcarce then neither : for if 

 the firft part of the winter has been fo 

 mild as to draw them up long, we fhould 

 rather be provided againft it by planting 

 another crop a fortnight or three weeks 

 after, which being iov/ and fnug, and 



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