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pole, seventy-five of which make an acre, 
and is divided in two parts ; one is thirty! 
the other thirty-four roods. One of the di- 
visions she plants alternately with potatoes, 
and the other is sown with wheat. On the 
>vheat stubble she plants potatoes in rows, 
and sows wheat on the potatoe ground ; sh« 
puts dung in the bottom of the rows where 
she plants the potatoes, but uses no dung 
for the wheat; and she has repeated thS 
succession for nearly the thirteen years, but 
•with better success and more economy 
during the last six or seven years. 
She prorides manure by keeping a pig, 
and by collecting all the manure she can 
from her house, and by mixing with it the 
scrapings of the roads, fcc. She forms it in 
a heap and turns it, before she puts it on her 
ground for potatoes. 
The ground is dug for potatoes in the 
month of March and April, to the depth of 
about nine inches. This digging would 
cost sixpence per pole, if hired.' After put- 
ting in the dung, the potatoes are planted 
