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employ fucha number of women infummer as 

 weeders, nor fo many men in winter as labour- 

 ers. But remove the man with his wife and 

 children into the field, and make a garden of 

 that; then the man with half a dozen children, 

 inftead of being poor, will foon find himfelf at 

 eafe. 



I have raifed not only a double crop of po- 

 tatoes and beans, but like wife a double crop of 

 potatoes and cabbages, by the plough, with a 

 Jittle afiiftance from the fpade. As the manure 

 lies between cabbage and cabbage, it would 

 indeed be impofTible to put the potatoe in a 

 proper place without the fpade ; and as there 

 will always be fome runners in cabbages, this 

 method fills up the vacancy in a proper manner, 

 and is highly profitable. I began cutting the 

 Cabbages in May; they were all cut by the 

 time the potatoes were fit to earth. The ex- 

 pence offettingan acre of potatoes amongfl 

 cabbages is ']s, per acre. A man, his wife, 

 with a boy or girl, will fet one day with an- 

 other better than half an acre. The man digs 

 the hole, the child drops in the potatoe, the 

 wife with a hoe covers it with earth, and at the 



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