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POTATOES. 



This root is one of the most profitable crops the 

 fanner can cultivate ; nor does the advantage of 

 it depend on markets for selling them ; for they 

 will pay a beneficial price, if given to cattle of va- 

 rious sorts, or hogs. In Ireland they feed their 

 cows on them with profit. The land designed for 

 potatoes, I suppose to have been ploughed in au- 

 tumn. They are to be planted trie beginning of 

 next month ; and, as they afted a good tilth, it 

 \\ill be advisable to plough the land this month, 

 preparatory to the planting earth, provided the wea- 

 ther be' dry enough : but in the preparation for this, 

 as well as for all other crops, no ploughing should 

 go on while the soil is at all wet. 



As this tillage marks the land designed for this 

 crop, it is proper to caution those fanners who are 

 unacquainted with the culture of it, against apply- 

 ing too much land to it. It they have a great 

 plenty of dung at command, they may enter 

 largely into this husbandry ; but they should de- 

 termine to plant no more land than can be ma- 

 nured at the rate of 25 or 30 large loads per acr 

 for one acre well cultivated, will pay better than 

 five, or even ten, indifferently managed. 

 PARSNIPS. 



Of all the roots which a fanner can cultivate, this 

 is the most valuable ; but it demands a better soil 

 than any other crop he can put into the ground. 

 If he IKIS not land of an extraordinary quality, he 

 had better not venture on the attempt. They love 



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