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The fecond method will fuit the indolent, or 

 thofe who have not time to dig their ground, and 

 that is, where weeds much abound and have not 

 been cleared in the winter, a trench may be opened 

 in a ftrait line the whole kngth of the ground, and 

 about fix inches deep; in this trench the potatoes 

 (hould be planted about ten inches apart; cuttings 

 or fiiiall potatoes will do for tliis method. When 

 they are laid in the trench, the weeds that are on 

 the furface may be pared off on each fide about ten 

 inches from it, and be turned upon the plants; 

 another trench fliould then be dug, and the mould 

 that comes out of it turned carefully on the weeds. 

 It mufl: not be forgot, that each trench fhould be 

 regularly dug, that the potatoes may be throughout 

 the plot ten or twelve inches from each other. 



This fiovenly method will in general raife more 

 potatoes than can be produced by digging the ground 

 twice, and dibbling in the plants; and the reafon 

 is, that the weeds lighten the foil, and give the 

 roots room to expand. They fliould be twice hoed, 

 and earthed up in rows. And here note, that if 

 cut potatoes are to be planted, every cutting fliould 

 have two eyes, for though fewer fcts will be ob- 

 tained, there will be a greater certainty of a crop, 

 as one eye often fails, or is defiroyed by grubs 

 in the earth. 



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