5 8 POTATOES. 8 ? 



plow and harrow, as for turneps ; getting it 

 as fine as the nature of an early fpring-fallow 

 91 ill admit of. 



III. MANURE. Dung : generally longftrawy 

 dung; which is fet in heaps, upon or near 

 the patch to be planted ; previous to the 

 feed-plowing. The quantity twenty to thirty 

 cartloads an acre. 



IV. SETS and PLANTING. Formerly it was 

 the common practice of the Diftricl to plant 

 zvlole potatoes. In taking up potatoes, they 

 yere forted into large, fmall, and fets\ 

 ivliich were of the middle fize. 



At prefent, that practice is, I believe, en- 

 tirely laid ailde ; it being now the cuftom to 

 (Kt potatoes into more than one fet : name- 

 Jy, middle-fized ones into two, large ones in- 

 to three or four ; leaving the cuttings much 

 larger than is done in mod other Diftricls j 

 \vhere eight or ten fingle-cyed fets are fome- 

 times cut out of qne pptatoe. 



The reafon given fo.r the ufe of LARGE CUT,- 

 TINGS is, that the young plants may acquire^ 

 st the outlet a ilrong vigorous habit, and 

 thereby be enabled to throw out and maiu- 

 number of roots and branches, 



