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worse for that. As he was aware that his soil had 
not enough lime to suit the canes, he added some. 
Then he had the land well hoed and ploughed, and 
knowing the value of a green-crop manure, he had 
the weeds buried. He would not allow the men to 
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Cutting Sugar-cane. 
burn them, for then some of the plant-food in them 
would have been lost. 
4. Next, holes were dug with the hoe, at distances 
of five or six feet apart, and the cuttings, or ‘ plants ’ 
as we call them, were put in.i Mr. Hood had very 
wisely taken great care to choose his ‘ plants ’ from 
