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and three feet apart ; let two men take a basket of potatoes, 

 medium size, and place in a line twelve inches apart, and so 

 continue the placing of the potatoes on the lot. You will in 

 all cases begin at the cross lines marked out, and follow the 

 lines, laying them down with care. Now with your heel, or 

 what is better, take a piece of 4 by 5 joist, one foot long, make 

 a hollow in the end of a proper size, reduce the end of the 

 driver to the end of the cavity, and with a long, slim handle 

 nailed on, drive each potato down just below the surface. As 

 soon as your potatoes are up, without delay plough amongst 

 them, turning the earth from them to the centre. If you have 

 done your work correctly, you will now have about four inches 

 of earth left undisturbed. As soon as all your potatoes are 

 up, stir this narrow belt of earth with a narrow garden hoe ; 

 in about a week, when all the weeds will be vigorous, plough 

 the earth back to the potatoes, and with a hoe, earth up and 

 destroy all the weeds. Plough your headlands, harrow down, 

 sow turnip seed, roll, and your land is finished till harvesting. 



Third year plough fine, sow barley for fodder. Plough and 

 harrow it in, then sow half a bushel of herds-grass, one bushel 

 of redtop seed and six pounds of clover to the acre ; brush in 

 the grass seed, rake smooth, pick off the stones, and your work 

 is done. 



Fourth and fifth years mow it for its grass. Sixth year feed 

 it off. Seventh year plough it cross-wise of your subsoiling, 

 and fourteen inches deep, which is two inches deeper than 

 when first ploughed, and bringing up two inches of subsoil. 

 This should be done with the Michigan soil and subsoil 

 plough. You have now a tender sod laid in the bottom of the 

 furrow ; you can now put on your manure and plough it in, 

 without disturbing your grass seed. All sod land can be bet- 

 ter ploughed in July than any other time ; your sod will soon 

 decay, and you will avoid grass in the furrow slice. You can 

 feed it till July, plough up, and get a crop of turnips if you 

 choose. 



You have now one piece of land enclosed, ploughed to the 

 depth of fourteen inches, drained, and in order for a garden, 

 orchard, or any high tillage. When once enclosed, avoid all 

 trespassing by man, beast or fowl, as you can have no perfect 



