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When the plants were above fix inches high, 

 they were carefully hoed, and foon after the two- 

 feet intervals between the ridges were dug, and the 

 contents thrown around the young plants. This 

 refrefliment, added to the ample manuring pre- 

 vioufly beftowed, produced fuch a luxuriance and 

 rapidity of growth, that no weed could fliew its 

 head. I need not add, that the land is now in a 

 ftate of the higheft fertility, perfcdlly clean, and 

 in moft excellent preparation either for wheat or 

 fpring corn. 



It may be alfo remarked, that in this mode of 

 planting, a very fmall fpace of ground is left un- 

 occupied, and the crop more abundant, than any 

 I ever before experienced. 



If this experiment be thought worthy of imita- 

 tion, and the culture of this excellent root be 

 thereby in any degree extended ; it will afford great j 

 fatisfadtion to the Society's well-wi(her. 



And moft obedient fervant, ] 



Afiwick-Grove, J. BILLINGSLEY. 



November 5, 1784. 



P. S. I did not think it .necelTary to fend par- 

 ticulars of my whole potatoe crop, as it would be in 

 a great meafure a recapitulation of the foregoing. 



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