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three teeth, drawn by one horse, which tears the 

 furrow in pieces, and lays hare the mass of the 

 crop: the women then pick again; and another 

 common cross-harrowing, with a second ploughing 

 and harrowing, all three attended with two wo- 

 men to each plough, will finish the business, and 

 clean the roots all away ; so that I have found the 

 pigs, when let in, make but very poor gleanings. 

 The use of the little harrow saved me from 14s. ta 

 2Os. per acre in labour. 



The best way of storing the roots, is in what are 

 called potatoe pies. A trench, one foot deep and 

 six feet wide, is dug, and the earth clean shovelled 

 out, and laid on one side: this has a bedding of 

 stniw, and the one-horse carts shoot down the po- 

 tatoes into the trench ; women pile them up about 

 three feet high, in the shape of a house-roof; straw 

 is then carefully laid on six or eight inches thick, 

 and covered with earth a foot thick, neatly smoothed 

 by flat strokes of the spade. In this method I never 

 lost any by the severest frosts; but, in case of its 

 freezing with uncommon severity, another coat of 

 straw over all, gives absolute security. 



These pies, when opened, should each be quite 

 cleared, or they are liable to depredation. To re- 

 ceive one at a time, besides also being at first filled 

 for immediate use, I have a house that holds about 

 70O bushels, formed of posts from fir plantations, with 

 wattled sides, then a layer of straw, and , against 

 that earth, six. feet thick at bottom and eighteen 

 inches at .tap: the roof flat, and a stuck of bean$ 



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