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was then fet to work, as near each fide of each 

 rank of potatoes as could be without damage to the 

 plants. This operation raifcd high ridges in the 

 intervals between the rows. 



In this flate it continued till the weeds began 

 to advance again in their growth. The double- 

 breaded plough was then fct to work again, going 

 up the middle of one row, and down another, by 

 which operation each fide of the plants were com- 

 pkatly earthed up; and before frefh weeds could 

 vegetate, the luxuriance of the greens was fuch as 

 to completely cover the intervals j fo that the whole 

 lurface of the field had one uniform appearance. 



In this fituation they continued till about the 20th 

 of Odlober, when the greens being mofl:ly decayed, 

 and the weather very fine, they were begun to be 

 taken up in the following manner: A ftrong plough 

 was fet deep enough to work below the bed of the 

 roots, with which the ploughman goes up one row 

 and down another, turning the roots up to the fur- 

 face. Women, boys, and girls, follow the plough, and 

 pick them up in baflcets as fall as they are turned out. 

 A pair of drags with long tines are drawn over the 

 ground after it has been picked, by which many are 

 brought up to the furface, which had efcaped the 

 pickers. When the whole field has been gone over 



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