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The horfe and hand-hoeing them during their 

 growth, and the ploughing, dragging, and harrow- 

 ing the ground to clean it of the potatoes, fo tho- 

 roughly deflroy the weeds, and pulverize the foil, 

 that it is made in the mod perfedl condition for a 

 crop of fainfoin ; and though the land may in \ti 

 nature be very .poor, the manuring properly for a 

 crop of potatoes,' and that being grown perfedlly 

 rotten, the foil is become fufHciently fertile. 



Befides tlie above, perhaps there are very few ar- 

 ticles in ufe as fubllitutes for pafture, that are equally 

 profitable with carrots and parfnips, when the foil is 

 fuitable to their manner of growth and culture. The 

 foil they delight and flourifh mod in is a deep, light, 

 free foil, which is eafily penetrated, and moderately 

 fertile. In fuch a foil, if properly hoed and fet out 

 at due diftances, they will arrive at a great magni- 

 tude, and the acreable produce be very furprifing. 

 Another advantage is, their being fo very acceptable 

 to the farmer's flock of every kind. Horfcs, cows, 

 fheep, and hogs, eat them feemingly with the fame 

 appetite, and are equally improved by them. Unfor- 

 tunately the quantity of fuch land bears but a fmali 

 proportion to what is totally unfuitable to them. 

 Hard, llifF, obdurate land, and fuch as ftrongly co- 

 heres, is quite unnatural to them, and never anfwers 

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