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SECTION XVI. 



Culture of Potatoes, and Turnips : the Produce. 

 Remarks on different Kinds of Cabbages, 

 Beans, Peas, Lettuces, fyc. Indian Beans, 

 Peas, 8$c. 



FOR the culture of potatoes, the land is 

 ploughed once, and harrowed once : then 

 open furrows are made by the plough pass- 

 ing twice on the same place, to make an 

 open ridge, at least three feet asunder, but 

 very frequently four. The manure is put 

 into it, and the potatoes cut, when they will 

 bear it, the same as in England, with two 

 eyes each. But it often happens that they 

 set the refuse of the last year's crop, not 

 larger than an English walnut. They plant 

 them in rows, from six to nine inches apart ; 

 then cover them with the hoe, and, when 

 they are up high enough, plough to them 

 twice, and draw the earth up to the roots 



