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worked throughout the summer, and if of a stub- born clayey soil, that will bake with drouth, every exertion should be used to pulverise, and reduce it to as fine a tilth as possible. If such land be left rough, as is the’prevailing practice, particu- larly in my neighbourhood, the clods gather to an enormous size, and there is no such thing after- wards as obtaining a tilth, of any tolerable fine- ness, for the wheat-seed. The spiky roller, in this case, is the only effectual implement. Turn- ing up and exposure to the sun will destroy the seed-weeds, on which account it is obvious their growth cannot be too much encouraged by till llage; as to grasses and root-weeds, it is a very common daeenaan to e expect that exposure will destroy them; which is to be done effectual ly, by no other means, than collecting them by hand, and burning them on the spot.

Hoeinc, Weepine, and HorseE-noErtnc.—All those Hoeing-crops already mentioned, will re- quire a strict attention this month, very prolific of weeds, but which should never be suffered to gain the ascendant. Row-cropswill now be ready ior the Hoe-plough. A small common swing- plough fully answers this purpose, and may be drawn by two horses, or oxen at length, within four inches of the rows, the soil being turned from the plants, which will in course leave a ridge in the middle of the alley: this ridge being split by a succeeding operation, that is, at the next time of ae eo throws the earth back to the roots of the pl ants. Should any of the corn be buried by the furrows, it must be uncovered with

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