6$ POTATOES. r 8: 



vouring to get the fhare below the potatoes, 

 and to overturn the ridges. But without 

 great care, rriany potatoes were cut in this 

 operation, and many more unavoidably buried j 

 to that picking again and again was necef- 

 fary ; and 4 at leait^ fdme were left in the 

 land; 



At prefent, the prevailing practice is to 

 take them up with common dung-forks : an 

 operation which is at once effectual; and 

 which is by no means fo tedious when pota- 

 toes are grown in ridges, as when^ in the ordi- 

 nary way, the entire ground is to be dug over. 

 In ridges, the roots are diflinct, and are eafily 

 laid bare ; being open on three fides, with 

 free vent for the mould. The fork being 

 forced down behind them, the whole nidus 

 are at once expofed. 



The way of preferring potatoes, here, has 

 been either to bury them in deep pits within 

 the ground ; or to houfe them in a barn or 

 other out-building, guarding them on every 

 fide with ftraw* The dangers to be guarded 

 againit are fro/Is and 'wet-nefs. 



At prefent (the evil effects of deep pits 

 having been difcovered) the growing practice 



feems 



