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place the potatoes into the proper position when there 

 are as many ploughs employed as it takes furrows to 

 turn the space from row to row. Ploughing-in is 

 sometimes adopted on foul land, where a partial 

 cleaning is intended. In favourable seasons this is 

 attended with success, but it is necessary to grow a 

 very robust variety, which will not be too much 

 checked by the trampling the land is subjected to. 

 Should the season, particularly before the potatoes 

 show above ground, prove wet, the land gets into a 

 frightful mess, and it would have paid far better to 

 have cleaned it in the ordinary way, putting in a crop 

 of turnips to pay the cost of working during that 

 season, following with potatoes in the subsequent 

 year, when the land is in all ways better fitted to 

 carry a crop. Where the crop is taken on foul land in 

 this way, the rows should be placed an extra width 

 apart so as to allow ample room for cleaning after the 

 crop is above ground. The cleaning operations after 

 the crop is planted are necessarily restricted to the 

 stirring of the land above the sets, consequently the 

 sets must be placed deeply in the soil, otherwise they 

 will be pulled out of the rows and be killed in the 

 after workings. A depth of 8 inches is necessary 

 where thorough working is to be adopted. 



Catch Crops with and after Potatoes. 



Catch crops are often taken with or after potatoes. 

 In districts where early varieties are grown it is not 

 an uncommon practice to plant winter greens between 



