34O POTATOES OX BORDEES. [MARCH. 



promiscuous way, from fifteen to twenty bushels of 

 potatoes are necessary to set an acre. 

 POTATOES ON GRASS. 



Grass-land is often broken up for a crop of po- 

 tatoes, and by most people preferred to any other. 

 The-methods are, first, to dung it moderately,, fif- 

 teen or twenty loads per acre ; then to dig up the 

 turf, and work in the dung at the same time, and 

 dibble in the sets, in the way before mentioned. 

 The crop scarcely ever fails of being great in this 

 method. Another is called the lazy-bed way. The 

 grass is dunged as before, and marked into beds 

 five feet wide, with narrow slips between them, two 

 feet wide. The beds are then dunged, about fifteen 

 loads per acre : on the dung are laid the potatoe- 

 slices, after which the turf is dug thinly up in the 

 two- feet intervals, and laid on the sets, which, with 

 another spit, and the loose mould, completes the 

 covering. This is not equal to digging all the 

 ground, on account of its being left whole for the 

 succeeding crop, but the crop of potatoes is gene- 

 rally good ; for, besides the dung, they have the 

 turf below to spread upon, and are partly covered 

 with that from the trenches, so that they lie hol- 

 low, and in a rich bed. 



POTVinrs OX r.OKPKRS. 



If you have any rough borders of fields, that 

 were grubbed up to clear away roots and rubbish 

 the- preceding winter, it is common to dig them 

 regularly in the beginning of this month, and dib- 

 ble 





