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injure here and there a plant; but, as they 

 are fee fo thick, it will do no material in- 

 jury : on the contrary, it pulverifes the foil; 

 and leaves the potatoes every opportunity to 

 grow and fpread ; fo that in a (hort time their 

 tops cover the land, and prevent any more 

 weeds from growing that feafon. 1 have made 

 land cleaner by this procefs than by any other 

 I ever yet tried. Seldom a weed makes h$ 

 appearance, and the few that do are eafily de- 

 stroyed - 3 and when the potatoes are ploughed 

 up, the women and children who gather them 

 fo feparare the roots of every kind of weeds, 

 that, by harrowing, they are very eafily col- 

 lected and carried off. 



To get your potatoes out of the ground, you 

 muft firft pull up all the tops and carry them 

 off, and collect the potatoes that are pulled up 

 along with them : then take a plough without 

 a coulter, and plough the land deep enough to 

 raife all the potatoes. You muft have people 

 furricient to gather up every furrow, to keep 

 the man and horfes at work. The number of 

 hands depends upon your crop. That done, 

 you muft with a pair of harrows with long 

 teeth harrow the land well, to raife the potatoes 



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