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a trench in a dry pan of the field, eight inches deep 

 and four feet widei fpread a thin layer of dry ftraw 

 on the bottom, and againft the fides ^ then throw in 

 your potatoes, and raife theni to the height of four 

 feet, leaving the top (helving in the form of a roof; 

 on the potatoes thus placed, lay a bed of dry ftraw 

 fix or eight inches thick, and cover the fame with 

 mould, dug from the fides of the pit, and patted on 

 to the thicknefs of a foot; after this, let your 

 thatchcB cover it with ftraw, or the haulm of the 

 potatoe, fufficient to keep out the rain. 



In this way, I have kept many thoufand facks 

 through the moft fevere winters, without injury. 



There are various methods of planting; but it 

 may be right to divide them under two diftind 

 heads, viz. the drill and the promifcuous. Both 

 thefe may again be fubdivided ; but as it is not my 

 defign to fatigue my reader, by entering into a dif- 

 cufTion on their refpedlive merits, I fhall only fay, 

 that my experience leads me to prefer the promif- 

 cuous mode; and to plant in beds five feet wide, 

 intervals or alleys three ktty dug and thrown on to 

 the beds, and the fets one foot apart. In this way 

 let the feafon be ever fo wet, the potatoes lie dry. 

 You alfo, in hoeing, have accefs, without treading 



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