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manure fresh from the stable or cow-byre is to be preferred to 
manure rotted down, and any kind of green refuse may be 
added; the coarse stuff being put at the bottom of the trenches, 
when the ground is made ready for planting. In light dry soils, 
it is good practice to plant in trenches drawn as deep as possible 
with the hoe, and at once filled in with fat manure. As a 
matter of course, the ground is to be first prepared by deep 
digging and manuring, and this additional work is to form a 
nice bed into which the plants will strike roots at once, being 
of course aided with water, for in poor soils a quick start is of 
great value, and a small quantity of rotten manure will go a 
great way if employed merely to fill up the surface drills into 
which the plants are to be inserted. 
Cabbages and Potatoes are often grown together on out- 
lying plots, and the surplus of both are found of service in 
feeding cows, pigs, and poultry. It is the most profitable 
way of occupying a piece of spare ground, and if the two 
crops so are moved about that they do not come on precisely 
the same spaces from year to year, there need be no change of 
routine for a life time. We occupy several plots in this way, 
and manage to shift the crops as indicated in the subjoined 
diagram, in which “p” represents the potato and “c” the 
cabbage. 
1876 p c p c p c 
1877 P C P c P c 
1878 p c p c p c 
1879 p c p c p c 
To make an end of all difficulty about distances, we select 
only the strongest growing variety of potatoes, and put them 
in rows four feet asunder, and when they are lifted in Sep- 
tember the ground is still covered with cabbages in rows four 
feet asunder. At every planting of cabbages, the ground is 
trenched between the potatoes and heavily manured, but the 
potatoes are planted in shallow trenches only two or three 
inches deep, and are moulded up from between, to keep them 
well above the surface, and no stable manure is used for them, 
but a light dressing of guano and Amies’ patent manure, mixed 
in equal quantities. In this routine, the potatoes are planted 
in February and March, and the land is at once made ready 
between, and cabbages from seed sown in August or September 
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