iss POTATO CULTURE. 



friend Root, wiiat you have "drawn me out " to tell, and for 

 the first time too, L think. 



Now for the figures : The first represents a field we plowed 

 this spring. Yes, friend Root, it is 16 rods by 60 rods. It is 

 16 rods wide. We plowed it as usual, in one land. This 



FIG. 1 FIELD 16x60 RODS, AND HOW TO PLOW IT. 



year it was back-furrowed. The dotted line b shows the 

 center of the field. The short dotted lines a and c are about 

 10 feet from the ends of the field. These spaces between 

 the dotted lines a and c. and the ends of the field, were left 

 as head lands to draw the plow across on. First we put up 

 a line of stakes through, two feet to the left of 6. We use a 

 right-hand plow. The stakes are set to one side a little, to 

 drive by the first time through, so the. first furrow will be 

 laid over to b. Beginning at the dotted line a, I plow 

 straight through the field to c, then turn around to the right 

 and start in on line c, and go back to dotted line a, putting 

 the furrow just against the first, not up on top of it. Thus 

 I go on around the field until I have plowed to the dotted 

 lines d and e. Then there is a space of ten feet all around 

 'the field, on all four sides, to be plowed, and I plow inward 

 all around them and finish the piece. Practically the plow- 

 ed land is not trodden on at all. A perfect job has been 

 done. When going across the ends u empty " I take the lett 

 plow-handle in my right hand, catch up the reins from the 

 plow-handle, where they usually hang, in my left hand, and 

 slide across the end in a hurry, holding the plow so it will 



