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miffed in gathering. When you fow your 

 wheat, you mud harrow again: there will be 

 potatoes left worth gathering. 



Potatoes for planting ought to be of a large 

 fize, as their eyes are ftronger, and will produce 

 a ftronger plant, and bring a much larger 

 produce; fo much as to make the difference 

 of thirty facks per acre betwixt large and fmall 

 potatoes for fets. 



It may be neceffary to add, that all the fpe- 

 cies of potatoes may be managed according to 

 the above methods, on all kinds of foil. 



SECTION XVI. 



Explanation why Wheat profpers better after Po- 

 tatoes than any other Crop, 



AS the land is denfely covered and fhaded 

 by the potatoes all the hot dry feafon, and 

 when they are gathered by hand in autumn, is 

 harrowed and much trodden, it becomes to a 

 great degree pulverifed ; but yet preferves a be- 

 neficial moifture. At the fame time the manure 

 originally laid in for the potatoes intimately 

 mingles with the foil, qualifies it to receive the 



grain, 



