OCT.] PLOUGH UP POTATOES. 4Q7 



them in the ground, and take them up as wanted ; 

 but this is applicable only to a district where every 

 man has a field, else they would he stolen. From 

 Is. (Jd.'to 2s. a load of 40 bushels, are given for 

 taking up. 



Respecting the application of the crop, much has 

 already been said on that head. They are to be given 

 to the team ; if without oats, two bushels per horse 

 per diem ; and they will eat but little hay : they are 

 of incomparable use in fattening oxen, and in feeding 

 stock swine. Sows that have pigs may be kept on 

 them, for they breed much milk. Cows eat them 

 greedily, and they give no ill taste to the milk, cream, 

 or butter. Their use, in short, is universal ; you 

 can cultivate no plant that will answer more purposes. 

 PLOUGH UP POTATOES. 



There is not the same reason for digging up this 

 crop as for carrots : the plough, among the latter is 

 apt to cut, break, and bury them ; but not so with 

 potatoes, for it turns them over, damaging scarcely 

 any. First let a number of women preceded by a 

 cart, pull up the tops, and throw the potatoes that 

 adhere to them into baskets, and the stalks into the 

 cart, which should convey them to the hog-yards, 

 where they will presently be trampled into dung : 

 then each plough taking its ground, attended by six 

 or eight women, or more, if the crop is very large, 

 each with a basket, divide the furrow, by setting up 

 white sticks into as many parts as there are women, 

 that each may pick her own share ; a range of bushel 

 skeps, at a small distance, for the baskets being emp- 

 tied, and three or four carts ready for men (who do 



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