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miserable economy, and instead of planting skins, 
ot slices, or dwarfs, take for seed the best and larg- 
est potatoes ; (those having in themselves the most 
aliment for the young plants;) (1) place them in 
your furrows, ten or twelve inches apart, and cover 
them carefully with earth. 
3d. Of the treatment of the growing crop. 
As soon as the potatoes begin to show themselves, 
weeds will also appear; a good harrowing will then 
save much future labor, and the injury it does the po- 
tatoe will be little or none. In a short time, another 
weeding will become necessary; but your crop 
having now obtained some inches in heighth, you 
canno longer safely use the common harrow; but 
instead of this, the small one of triangular form, so 
made as to accommodate itself to the width of the 
intervals. .This labor may be occasionally repeat- 
ed, if necessary, until the potatoes begin to flower, 
when the horse hoe must be substituted for the har- 
row. -The effects of this instrument (the horse hoe) 
are to extirpate. the weeds, to divide and loosen the 
soil, and to throw over the potatoes an additional 
covering of earth. 
The harvesting and preserving of potatoe crops, 
are processes well knownin thiscountry. With re- 
gard to the latter, however, we would suggest, 
whether stacking potatoes on the surface of the soil 
and with a narrow base, is not a better mode than 
burying them in the ground. Fifteen bushels will 
be enough for one stack, which must be well cover- 
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(1) The interior of the potatoe, forms the fecula, which subsists the young plants, 
