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a fecond time, a careful peiTon fliould drop the 

 potatoe plants before the plough in every third 

 furrow at about eight or ten inches apart. Plants 

 that are cut with two eyes are beft for this purpofe. 

 My reafon for planting them at fo great a diftance 

 as every third furrow, is, that when the fhoots 

 appear, a horfe-hoe may go upon the two vacant 

 furrov.'s to keep them clean; and after they are 

 thus hoed, they fhould be moulded up in ridges ; 

 and if this crop be taken up about Odober or No- 

 vember, the land will be in excellent condition to 

 receive a crop of wheat. Lands that are full of 

 twitch or couch grafs may be made clean by this 

 method, as the horfe-hoeing is as good as a fum- 

 mer fallow; and if, when the potatoes are taken 

 up, women and children were to pick out fuch 

 filth, not any traces of it would remain; and by 

 laying it on heaps and burning it, a quantity of 

 aihes would be produced for manure. 



After ploughing, none lliould ever dibble in 

 potatoes, as the perfons who dibble, plant, or hoe 

 them, will all tread the ground, by which means it 

 Will become fo bound, that the young fibres cannot 

 expand; nor did I ever hear, that from the dib- 

 bling method, more than fifiy or fixty facks were 

 produced from one acre; whereas, by ploughing 

 them in as before-direded, I have obtained more 

 than one hundred facks per acre. 



