On the Rachheath Sub- Turf Plough. 



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women or lads in gatliering- an average crop of potatoes : — and 

 the other is a sketch of the Iron Hands for finding- the potatoes 



Iron Hand. 



when turned out by the plough. 



The pig's-head plough, with the coulter removed from the 

 sub-turf plough, and the pig's head attached, is worked by two 

 horses abreast, and one man conducting it. No two adjoining 

 rows of potatoes should be ploughed consecutively, lest the 

 pickers should not have sufficient time allowed them to remove 

 the potatoes thrown out (by the plough) of the preceding ad- 

 joining row, before they are covered by the potatoes and soil of 

 the succeeding row. The ploughing^ therefore, should be thus 

 conducted ; the perpendicular lines represent the rows of 

 potatoes : — 



No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 



Go down row 1, up 3, down 5, up 2, down 4, and up 6, and 

 so on through the field. The eight women or lads are so placed 

 in four divisions on the most convenient parts of the two rows to 

 be next ploughed, one in each division carrying an iron hand to 

 scratch out the potatoes removed by the plough, and the other 

 carrying a basket into which they are to be gathered. Two men 



