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Article XVI. 



On the Culture of Potatoes. 

 [By the Rev. H. J. CtosE, Trimley, SufFolk.] 



Gentlemen-, Nov. 1785. 



THE following pracf^ical obfervations on the 

 culture and ufe of Potatoes, will not, I hope, 

 appear entirely uninterefting. They are the refult 

 of various experiments made for five years fuc- 

 ceflively on that valuable root, the growth of which 

 cannot be too much encouraged. 



When the potatoe crop has been the only obje<5l 

 in view, I have adopted the following method with 

 the frreateft fuccefs. — 



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The land being well pulverized by two or three 

 good harrowings and ploughings, is then manured 

 with fifteen or twenty cart-loads of dung per acre, 

 before it receives its laft earth. Then it is thrown 

 on to what the SufFolk farmers call the trench balky 

 uhich is narrow and deep ridge work, about fifteen 

 inches from the center of one ridge to the center 

 of the other. Women and children drop the fets 

 in the bottom of every furrow fifteen inches apart; 

 men follow, and cover them with large hoes, a foot 

 in \>idth, pulling the mould down fo as to bury 



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