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i!eep, with an hoe or plough : place the fers 

 in the drills, and earth tliem over. And in 

 field-pUnting, it is fometimes effcded by 

 placing the lets in the furrow after the plough, 

 as the ground is plowed, turning the earth 

 of the iucceeding furrow in upon the fet?, al- 

 lowing the dillance as above between t)ie, 

 rows. 



The plants will come up in Mcy ; but 

 fometimes, before their appearance, nume- 

 rous weeds will advance, in which cafe it • 

 proper ta run over the ground, betvveen th- 

 rows, with a common broad hoe, or Dutch 

 hoe, being careful to obferve, if the potatoe 

 ihoots are advanced near the furface, not to 

 cut them ; however, when they are up, give 

 a good hoeing in dry weather, cutting up ail^ 

 weeds, and llir the ground about the plants,! 

 which repeat once or twice, as weeds appear ; 

 and when the potatoes are advanced a foot 

 high, may hoe up fome earth to the bctcom 

 of the Ikms, to rtrengthen their growth, and 

 promote the encreafe below. Sometimes, in 

 large iield-crops, the hoeing is performed with 

 an horie-hoe, for greater expediuon. 



The plants will encreafe in the root, each 

 iet to many potatoes in a clufter, which, in 

 the early or lirii- plan ted crops, will fometimes 

 be advanced to proper fize, in June and July, 

 to begin taking up a few in their young 

 growth for prefent eating, only however a 

 fmall portion at a time as wanted, as they 

 will not keep good above a day or two : but 

 in AuguH and September will be encreafed to 

 Qjl 2 a mo- 



