Sentence:  ... you may begin to dig your ground in the beginning, so all along Winter till the very day of setting, and then you must keep it with weeding and hoing till it have got the <WSD>mastership</WSD> of the weeds and then it being a weed of it self wil destroy all other. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Mastery: dominion, superiority, control.