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with the hoe: for in many parts the soil is 

 not very thick upon them, when two feet 

 soil is drawn to the row on each side. To 

 take them up, some people plough a furrow 

 on each side, and then go with hoes, and 

 turn the potatoes up. 



The produce is generally about fifty 

 bushels per acre : one hundred bushels are 

 reckoned a very great crop. Indeed the 

 produce of potatoes very much depends on 

 the richness of soil, in all parts of the world, 

 and the quality and quantity of dung used. 



There are many sorts of potatoes in use 

 in America. The cluster potatoe is in very 

 general use. The wise potatoe, or what is 

 termed the pink-eye in England, which is a 

 light red or shaded, cuts a little red within, 

 and is the best potatoe I ever tasted in Ame- 

 rica : but the produce is small. There are 

 what they call the London lords, which is a 

 large potatoe, something like the ox-noble 

 in England, reckoned by Americans the best 

 potatoe for production. There are what 

 they term Irish potatoes, which in England 



