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cleared before the ploughman has finilhed another, 

 and thus they proceed without the leaft hindrance 

 or interruption to each other. 



When the whole is ploughed and picked in this 

 manner, a pair of drags is run over the whole, 

 which feparates and expofes the potatoes that may 

 happen to adhere to the clods of earth, which are 

 then alfo picked up and the grounds nearly cleared. 

 The feafon being now come for fowing wheat, the 

 ground is clean ploughed, and the few potatoes that 

 may pofTibly remain fully expofed to view, which 

 being alfo picked, the ground is rendered very clean. 

 ^— In this way the whole expence of harvefling the 

 crop is little more than picking and carrying home; 

 for die expence of ploughing, &:c. is little, if any, 

 more than would have been incurred in tilling the 

 ground equally well for the wheat crop. 



Now I think it impofTible, by any invention or 

 device whatever, to take up a potatoe-crop with 

 lefs lofs or damage. The crop of the above expe- 

 riment was taken up under my own eye, and I with 

 great truth and confidence aver, that there were not 

 fo many as a fingle gallon bruifed, cut, or damaged 

 In the leaft degree whatever. 



Ncrth'Scckhampton^ 



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