When the plants are about fix inches in length, 
the earth is ratfed higher towards them, by the 
double earth-board going twice in the traé& of the 
former earthings, but much deeper than before; 
which finifhes the horfe-hoeing of the crop. The 
roots are taken up with a fork with three prongs. 
Yo make this operation eafier where the land is 
(tiff, the outfide of the row, in which there are no 
potatoes, is pared away by going round every other 
row with the horfe-hoe, and when thefe are dug, 
returning to the remaining ones; that is, the earth 
is removed from the tft, 3d, 5th, 7th, &c. and 
when the potatoes are taken out of thefe, it is re- 
moved from the ad, 4th, 6th, 8th, &c. The in- 
jury done to the roots by the plough and harrow, 
and the great number unavoidably left in the foil, 
is not compenfated by the faving of time and labour 
in taking up with thofe inftruments. 
The great returns A. Campsecu has had from 
potatoes, as appears from his experiments, and that 
in foil by no-means equal. to the average foil of 
Britain, are the beft vouchers for the goodnefs of 
the foregoing method of management. In wetland, 
the potatoes, initead of being planted upon the 
dung, are pufhed by the hand into the top of the 
row after it is formed, by covering up the dung, 
and the holes filled up by the hand-hoe. By this 
method the potatoes, though not fo produttive, are 
better’ tafted, and in lefs danger of perifhing from- 
moifture. Potatoes 
