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the ground, and prevents the young fibres from 

 properly expanding. 



A good crop may be obtained by laying pota- 

 toes upon turf at about twelve or fourteen inches 

 apart, and upon beds of about fix feet wide, on 

 each fide of which a trench fiiould be opened 

 about three feet wide, and the turf that comes 

 from thence fiiould be laid with the grafiy fide 

 downwards upon the potatoes; a fpit of mould 

 fhould next be taken from the trenches, and be 

 fpread over the turf, and in like manner the whole 

 plot of ground that is defigned to be planted muft: 

 be treated. And remark, that when the young 

 fhoots appear, another fpit of mould from the 

 trenches fiiould be firewed over the beds fo as to 

 cover the fiioots; this will prevent the froft from 

 injuring them, encourage them to expand, and 

 totally defiroy the young weeds; and when the 

 potatoes are taken up in the autumn, a careful 

 perfon may turn the earth again into the trenches, 

 fo as to make the furface level; and it will be right 

 to remark, that from the fame ground a better crop 

 of potatoes may be obtained the following year. 



For field planting, a good (if not the bcfi) 

 method is to dung the land, which fiiould be once 

 ploughed previous thereto ; and when it is ploughed 



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