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  • A common fault of beginners is to put the spade in the soil on a slant and only about half the length of the blade, and then flop the soil over in the hole from which it came, often covering the edge of the unspaded soil.

    The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich

  • Fill these with moist soil from the field or garden, packing it till it is as hard as the unplowed or unspaded soil.

    The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich

  • The good spader works from side to side across his piece of ground, keeping a narrow trench or furrow between the spaded and unspaded soil, into which weeds and trash and manure may be drawn and thoroughly covered, and also to prevent covering the unspaded soil.

    The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich

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