CULTURE OF HOPS. 9S 



by one or other of the means which have been mentioned, soon 

 have all the varieties which may be adapted to different soils 

 and uses. 



As the practice of sowing the land with wheat next after a 

 crop of potatoes, is so important to the interest of the farmer, it 

 may be expected it will become a part of our geneiral system. 

 In addition, th-arefore, to what has been remarked respecting 

 the depositing of the potato tops for manure, the following prac- 

 ticable mode has been found very efficacious. 



Before the digging is commenced, run a deep furrow near 

 the row, turning the soil from them, deposit the tops in the 

 bottom of the furrow ; dig the potatoes, and then by turning a 

 back furrow, the tops may be covered a sufficient depth to es- 

 cape the teeth of the harrow. After the potatoes are dug, a 

 single furrow on the row will be sufficient to prepare the 

 ground for the reception of the seed. The vines placed in this 

 condition will affiard a good supply of excellent manure, and 

 although it may not be so equally dieUibuted to every part of 

 the soil by this operation, yet the preference of this mode of 

 securing the whole benefit of the manure, will more than com- 

 pensate for this defect in its distribution. But w^hen wheat is 

 to follow the potato crop, the soil should have been rendered 

 sufficiently fertile in the cultivation of that crop. The teeth of 

 the harrow, in harrowing in the wheat, should be guaged, as 

 may be necessary in many other uses of it, by putting them 

 through pieces of slit work, or plank, laid on'the top of the 

 harrow, with holes for the teeth, that they may thereby be pre- 

 vented from running so deep as to disturb the vines which are 

 buried. 



The practice of leaving potato vines on the field without be- 

 ing buried, whether wheat is to follow Ihe potato crop or not, 

 is slovenly, bad husbandry, a wanton v/aste of manure, and 

 ought to be exploded by all who would sustcdn the reputatioR 

 «f good farmers. 



Culture of Hops. 



This plant requires a rich mellow soil, which should be pre- 

 pared by digging or deep ploughing. "When a piece of 

 land is intended to be planted, the first thing is to plough Ihe 



