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the fold, for many reafons, which will be ex- 

 plained hereafter. 



Yellow-clover is a fort I do not like; it being 

 of a very poor nature, and its increafe not 

 abundant, its leaf fmall, and its ftalk like 

 wire. 



SECTION XV. 



Culture of Potatoes fully explained, by a ne<w 

 Syftem, on all Sorts of Soils. 



I HAVE derived the greateft profits from 

 planting the potatoes thick; nor do they thrive 

 better by any method than by ploughing fward 

 very thin, and fettingthem under furrow about 

 nine inches afunder. They do not thrive well 

 when encumbered with too great a weight of 

 earth: when fet under the fward, one furrow 

 bearing upon another gives liberty to the fibres 

 which are as fine as a hair and eafily obftructed, 

 to run abundantly and freely, producing knots 

 fpreading over the whole of the foil. After 

 the potatoes have been Cet, begin to harrow; 

 and when they begin to appear through the 

 feamsj you mud harrow them again with the 



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