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To preferve the potatoes fromfroft, make them 

 into what we call a pie: a term well underftood 

 in Yorkfhire; but perhaps not very intelligible 

 in other parts of the Ifland. For the manner 

 of making fuch a pie, fee Section XVII. 



Potatoes might be given to the fheep in frofty 

 Weather, when it would be difficult to move the 

 trays or pens. They might be given in the 

 fpace where the turnips had been. If you have 

 more potatoes than neceffary for the Iheep, you 

 may feed milch-cows with them; as milk and 

 butter are far better from potatoe-food than 

 turnips. In fact, potatoes are excellent food 

 for cattle of all kinds. 



SECTION XIII. 



B eft Method of Seeding Land; Quantity necejfary 

 and proper Sort for every Soil. 



THE bed method of fowing feeds, if with 

 barley or any fpring crop, is to fow them after 

 the corn is in, and the ground is harrowed to a 

 fine mould. After fowing them, it is a good 

 method immediately to bufh-harrow, and to 

 roll the earth, for from want of fuch precau- 

 tion many of them fail of producing the ex- 

 pected 



