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Potatoes planted in this manner, do not admit of 
being harrowed; which may be one reafon why the 
produce islefs. Itis greater, however, in lazy-beds, 
a method which ought never to be ufed, excepting 
in fmall corners, in foft, deep, or in fhallow rocky 
foils, which are inacceflible to the plough, or in 
bringing ftubborn new land into culture. 
In planting potatoes in rows without dung, or 
where the dung has been previoufly incorporated 
with the foil, the furrows in which they are planted 
ought to be much fhallower than when the dung 
is placed under them. Potatoe {tems ought never 
to be cut at any period of their growth. The roots 
continue to improve till the ftems have decayed, fo 
as not to be worth cutting; but they become fta- 
tionary the moment they are deprived of the ftems. 
Much lefs ought cattle to be allowed to go among 
the potatoes before they are taken up. Befides in- 
juring the ftems, they poach the foil, and expofe 
the roots fo much tothe air and moifture, that 
many of them perifh. 
_ [It is hoped no material inaccuracy ‘has crept into the 
foregoing piece; but it was printed off from a copy not the 
‘moft /egibly tranfcribed; and the original, from fome acci- 
dent, was miflaid by a gentleman, to whofe care it had 
been intrufted. ] 
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