OF THE COUNTY OF DOWN. IQI 



from the drills at a diftance not likely to hurt their 



roots ; deepening the furrow, and raifmg fine mold, 



which being harrowed is again thrown up as high as 



poflible ; and when fuch weeds as fpring up amongft 



the ftalks are pulled up, I fend men with (hovels to 



mend any fpots, where the earth has not been laid up 



clofe enough by the plough, and fo the work is 



finifhed." For the fake of connexion I (hall quote the 



remainder of this ingenious gentleman's obfervations. 



" In taking out the potatoes at the end of the feafon, I 



have tried various methods, but have never been able 



to do it fo much to my fatisfacYion, as by ufmg a 



plough of my own conftrucYion, with two mold-boards, 



which I fhift alternately from one fide to the other, 



throwing the potatoes always one way, both going 



down one row and returning up another. With this 



plough, and a fmall harrow, which accompanies it, I 



find I can take them out fufficiently clean, and more 



expeditioufly than by any other mode I have feen. I 



cannot fay with certainty, what quantity of potatoes I 



life for the feed of an acre, having never paid jpuch 



attention to it. The quantity muft always depend on 



the fize of the potatoes ufed, as large ones will not go 



fo far as a fmaller kind. A confiderable part of the 



feed I ufed laft year confifted of the eyes, fcooped out 



inflead of cutting, and having found them to anfwer, 



I defign to plant no other fets hereafter ; for feven 



months paft I have directed, that all the large potatoes, 



' that 



