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so as to admit it into the mouth of the vessel ; put 

 it in ; put some water under, and some potatoes over 

 this perforated iron ; and, as the water boils, the po- 

 tatoes will be steamed and prepared for the table : 

 or, if to be boiled, put them into the vessel while the 

 water is cold, that they nay heat through as the tem- 

 perature of the liquid is increased, so that the inside 

 may cook as well as the outside ; and, when they 

 are near being done, turn off the water, remove the 

 cover, and leave them to dry over a moderate heat. 



We will close this article, already longer than we 

 had intended, by giving the culture, expense, product, 

 and estimated profit of two crops raised by our- 

 selves, in different years, upon the Albany barrens, 

 the soil a sand-loam. 



Culture. The field was in clover. We applied 

 twenty-five loads of long manure, in May, to an acre, 

 and dropped it at suitable distances for spreading ; 

 marked out two lands of equal breadth, twenty feet ; 

 and, having the seed prepared, proceeded to planting, 

 which occupied three men, a boy and team, three 

 half days. One man took charge of the team ; a 

 second raked the manure into the furrow, and trod 

 it down as he went on ; and a third spread the ma- 

 nure, and, with the boy, dropped the seed. The rake 

 followed the first furrow, and the manure from two 

 and a half feet surface was drawn into it, and the 

 sets or seed dropped at eight inches distance on the 

 manure. The plough followed and turned three fur- 

 rows, or made three bouts. In the mean time, the 

 manure and seed were deposited in the first furrow 

 of the second land, to which the plough followed, 

 and in this way they alternated till the planting was 

 completed. The ground was then rolled, harrowed 

 as the plants began to break the surface, and subse- 

 quently ploughed between the rows, and hand-hoed 

 once. About half the field was a dry sand-knoll, 

 which suffered severely from drought ; and the crop 

 here was but a little more than fifty per cent, of the 

 other half The product was ascertained by the ng 

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