FARMER'S MANUAL, 

 JUNE. 



Your whole business of Spring husbandry, both in 

 the field and the garden, is now closed, and your 

 fences are all in good repair. You will now enter 

 with spirit upon the culture of the Potatoe. You 

 have doubtless planted a good supply for the table 

 and early feeding ; and the time is now come when 

 you have an opportunity to enter extensively upon 

 the culture of this most valuable root, as a part of 

 your field husbandry, for the use of stock and the 

 market; particularly upon your fallow grounds. It 

 is true, the potatoe may be planted at any time after 

 the ground is free from frost, but it will not vegetate 

 until the ground becomes warm. It is also true, that 

 the potatoe called the English white, may be planted 

 with success upon rich ground, as late as the 20th of 

 July ; very extraordinary frosts excepted. 



My remarks on this most important branch of good 

 farming will be ; 1st, On the value of the different 

 kinds of potatoes, and their use; 2d, The different 

 soils to which they are adapted; 3d, The manner of 

 planting and hoeing ; 4th, The time and manner of 

 digging and housing them. 



1. The English white, Irish yellow, common red, 

 red rusty-coat, yellow rusty-coat and purple pota- 

 toes, are the most farinaceous, produce the greatest 



ting through the sward, I then carried on to about an acre and a 

 quarter, thirty waggon loads of good barn -yard manure, and ten 

 waggon loads of chip manure, then gave it a deep ploughing and 

 harrowed it down. The whole of the ploughing was 4 time', and 

 harrowing was performed as often. About the middle of May, I dis- 

 po$ed the land into ridges about 3 feet apart. After levelling the 

 ridges with the hoe, I planted the corn on the ridges at the distance 

 of eight inches per grain apart. Jt was hoed in the usual manner 3 

 times. Previous to hoeing the last time, the succours were all taken 

 off, immediately following with the hoe, and covering up the wound- 

 ed stalks, which 1 think was of essential service to the crop by pre- 

 venting them from emitting their juice. The corn that I planted was 

 the small 8 rowed white corn, intermixed in a slight degree with the 

 yellow.' " 



