OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



under so-called "hill" culture, and with a 

 broadcast application of manure, since it is a 

 gross and wide feeder, and demands full flow 

 of sun and air; but in respect to most other 

 hoed crops there can be no doubt of the supe- 

 rior economy, as well as the more orderly ap- 

 pearance of the drill system. 



Take for instance our ordinary crop of pota- 

 toes, (and I think the details of its manage- 

 ment were never before subject of discussion 

 in a similar context;) four out of ten patches 

 of this worthy esculent, are, in New England 

 soil, put down in wavy lines of hills — irregular 

 in distance, slatternly in culture, and yet in- 

 volving per bushel a far larger expense for til- 

 lage and harvesting, than if dressed, planted, 

 cleaned, and earthed up according to some sys- 

 tem which would demand trim lines, even dis- 

 tances, and a complete shading of the whole 

 ground in the season of their most rampant 

 growth. Perhaps I shall not be counted too in- 

 tolerably practical, if I indicate the actual 

 method of procedure which has been some- 

 times followed under my own observation. 

 We will suppose that a good surface of sward- 

 land (requiring a lift by reason of its weedi- 

 ness) is turned over lightly, (and flatly, if 

 you please,) in the month of October. Noth- 



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