8 a cottager's; garden 
in rows, about twelve, or fourteen inches 
distant. The sets are placed about four! or- 
five inches apart in the rows.: 
The dung is carried out in a wheelbarrow, 
and it takes a great many days to plant the 
whole, generally ten days. 
Her husband always assists in digging, 
after his hours of ordinary labour. When 
the potatoes come above ground, the weeds 
are destroyed by the hoe, and the earth laid 
up on both sides to the shoots, and this is 
repeated from time to time, as the season 
requires. Hand-weeding is also used when 
necessary. 
In the month of October when the potatoes 
are ripe, she takes off all the stalks or haulm 
of the potatoe, which she secures to produce 
manure by means of her pig. She now goes 
over the whole with a rake, and takes off all 
weeds, and before taking up the potatoes, she 
sows her wheat on as much of the ground 
as she can clear of potatoes that day. They 
are taken up with a three-pronged fork, in 
