POTATO CULTUKE. 



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writer saw large fields in Western New York as clean as his 

 own at home, where no harrow or hoe had been used. They 

 were worked with this above-mentioned implement. Just 

 as the sprouts of the potatoes were breaking ground, the 

 coverer was drawn over the field. The little weeds were 

 smothered by the soil put over them, while the potato -tops 

 pushed right through again. I think this kind of cultiva- 

 tion ridges up the ground too much for best results ; still, I 



THE VICTOR POTATO-COVERER. 



saw large crops dug. If you want to cover a single row at 

 once, after hand-dropping, almost as good a way is to take, 

 say, a Planet Jr. cultivator, put on the side-shovels, turned 

 to throw earth in ; use two horses, so they will not walk on 

 the potatoes in the row, but between the rows, and you can 

 cover one row as fast as you can walk. Many an acre have I 

 covered in this way, when we used to plow out furrows one 

 at a time, and after we got beyond covering with a hoe. 



