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Potatoes. 



Mr. Scroope has, for many years, tried 

 numerous experiments on this moft ufeful 

 root : But as the refult of them has been 

 remarkably uniform, it will be fufficient 

 to fketch the method of culture he fol- 

 lows, and which has been generally fuc- 

 cefsful. 



The foil fixed on, preferably to others 

 for potatoes, is a fandy loam. It is plough- 

 ed three times in fpring ; in the third 

 ploughing the llices of potatoes are laid in 

 the furrows, one foot from each other, with 

 a handful of long dung to each fet, fo as 

 to come up in equally diftant rows, two 

 feet afunder -, the fets and dung are covered 

 in the ploughing. Eight bufhels of po- 

 tatoes and five loads of dung are fufiicient 

 for an acre. When the plants are about 

 Iwo or three inches high, the land is har- 

 rowed level. The rows are afterwards horfe- 

 hoed twice, and hand-hoed once or twice. 

 The crop is ploughed up ; a perfon follows 

 the plough to pick them up ; it is then 

 harrowed, the harrows followed in the 

 fame manner ; after this it is in the fame 

 manner ploughed and harrowed again, and 

 wheat harrowed in ; the crop of which is 

 always good. The average crop of potatoes 

 2 1 6 hui\\t\%per acre. One potatoe laft year, 

 weighed i 8 ounces. 



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