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When the weeds have appeared and are fit to pull, 

 the crop mull be carefully weeded, and in the courfe 

 of the fummer, muft be weeded a fecond time. 



If the potatoes are planted in the latter end of 

 March or even the beginning of April, they will be 

 come to their full growth before Michaelmas. They 

 muft then be dug out, and the land will be left in 

 condition to bear a good crop of wheat to be fown 

 at that feafon with a flight ploughing, at which 

 time the brows of the ridges fhould be partly 

 ploughed into the trenches, that the ground may be 

 in order for future crops, and then the whole of the 

 field properly covered with the crop. After this 

 hufbandry, the ground will be fit for a crop of barley 

 to fucceed the wheat, and then a crop of oats with 

 clover, &c. 



N. B. By this courfe of hufbandry, the arable land of the 

 farm will never be fallow for a year, as the potatoe crop 

 fucceeds thelaft crop of oats, and will be well worth 2ol. 

 per acre; and the land by the digging will be left in finer 

 tilth than fourploughings will produce. 



I twice tried an experiment, which anfwered be- 

 yond my expectations. Inftead of firft digging out 

 my potatoes, 1 cut the haulm with a fcythe, and 

 threw it into the trenches. I then fent the fower 

 to fow the land with wheat; then I had the potatoes 



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