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{mall heaps, in the row the horfe goes in, a fuffici- 
ency for itand the row on each fide. It is immedi« 
ately divided by women and children among the 
rows, and fpread in them as equally as poflible; 
upon the dung the fets are placed, 12 inches afunder. 
The middle-fized and {mall potatoes are left uncut.. 
The large ones are either feparated from the reft, 
for the ufe of the family and for cattle, or made 
into two or three pieces for being planted. The 
potatoes and dung are then covered up by fplitting 
the ridges between the rows, going twice in the 
fame tract as when opening up the rows. 
Advantages attending early-planted Potatoes.— 
ift. They are more mealy and better tafted. adly. 
There is a greater chance of a dry feafon to take 
them up in. (If houfed wet, they muft be dried by 
thin fpreading, and frequently turning them; or 
they will not keep.) 3dly. There is lefs danger of 
their being loft in the foil by moifture or froft, after 
they are ripe. 4thly. The land can be ploughed 
dry after the potatoes are removed. Ploughing it 
immediately after the potatoes are off, keeps it dry 
through the winter, and expofes the feeds and roots 
of grafs, &c. to be deftroyed by the froft. Oats 
are fown in fpring upon the furrow; as giving it 
another ploughing, after the froft is over, would 
bring up frefh weeds to injure the crop, and would 
bury the furface which had been meliorated by exe 
vofure to the influence of the elements. 
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