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PREPARATION FOR: POTATOES. 

 The best of all preparations is that of paring and 

 burning, and then planting in the furrow of the 

 succeeding ploughing, which should not be more 

 than four inches deep. If 10 or 12 loads of long 

 dung be spread over the ashes, and both ploughed 

 in together, with Ducket's skim-coulter, it will add 

 greatly to the crop. 



PLANTING. 



They should be set in every other furrow, which 

 will make them come up in rows at IS inches asun- 

 der. I plant in the same way when a stubble is 

 dunged for the crop, or previous tillage given. I 

 have had great crops by ridging the land in bout 

 ridges of 26 to 30 inches, dunging the furrows, 

 laying the sets on the dung, and reversing the 

 ridge by a bout of the plough. All these ways 

 will give good crops ; and probably the Ilford me- 

 thod of dibbling the sets in may be as good, or 

 better than any other, but it is much more ex- 

 pensive. 



SEED. 



It takes from 25 to 30 bushels, according to the 

 size of the sets, to plant an acre promiscuously 

 dibbled at ten inches, and from eight to ten to 

 plant every other furrow, at one foot from set to 

 set. 



CARROTS. 



If the carrot-seed was sown very early (earlier 

 than they ought to have been) the crop will be 

 ready for the first hand-hoeing by the end of this 



month. 



