Note 125 — CHAP. IX. Of Wheat.
Reading edition
If the Land was not sufficiently tilled or hoed in the precedent Year, it will require the more Hoeings in the following Year.
[126]The poorer the Land is, the more Hoeings it should have.
[127]A wet Summer may prevent some of the Hoeings that we should perform in a dry Summer.
[128]Our Hoeing deep near the Plants, when small, breaks off only the Ends of the Roots; but after the Roots are spread far in the interval, the greatest Part of them, being then on the Right-hand Side of the Hoe plough, might hold fast on that Side, and not be drawn out; and then the whole Roots would be broken off close to the Bodies of the Plants: Therefore at the Second deep Hoeing, that turns a Furrow from the Row in the Summer, we go about Four or Six Inches farther off from the Roots than the time before; but we go nearer or farther off, according to the Distance of Time between those Two Hoeings: Yet we may hoe shallow near to the Plants at any time, without Injury to their Roots, but, on the contrary, it will be advantageous to them.