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THE farmer’s manual. 
2. Sufler no weeds to seed your fallows, either in 
autumn, or summer. 
3. Be careful that your seed-grain is clean and free 
from all foul seeds. 
4. Observe the same in your grass-seed, when you 
stock down. 
5. Pull out the docks upon your mowing-grounds, 
before they seed and ripen, that they may not further 
foul your mowing, or be carted into your barn, and 
fed out with your hay, and thus foul your dung. 
6. Remove every noxious weed from your hedges 
and fences, which can expose your fields to the effects 
of their seeds. Of this class, are the thistle, the 
dock, and burdock, &c. 
7. Sufler no old tired field to lie waste, as a nurse- 
ry tor weeds ; the expense of jiloughing, will bear no 
proportion to the after expense of weeding. 
8. Weed your corn with the plough and hoe ; not 
after the weeds are grown, but as soon as they begin 
to appear; one crop is enough for one piece of land 
at one time, and if you suffer weeds to grow with 
your corn, you will in fact have but one crop, and that 
will be loeeds, your corn will be only a nominal crop. 
9. Weed your wheat, rye, barley, oats, flax and 
hemp ; the profit will be as great upon either of these 
crops, as upon your corn, and the expense compara- 
tively small, (generally.) Try it and see. 
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Irrigation. 
In my monthly remarks, 1 have noticed this spe- 
cies of tillage generally ; a few remarks a little more 
particularly, may be useful in this place. It is not 
my intention to give my remarks upon irrigation 
their full scope ; but to confine myself to such, only, 
as are adapted to the practical stale of our own coun- 
try. To make the most of this subject will niany 
times require a large capital, even in England, where 
labour is cheap; but the expense of labour, together 
