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THE farmer’s MANUAt. 
may derive from his manure from this stock in his 
general tillage. Potatoes, when planted on the same 
ground successively more than 2 years, will not do 
well ; but when used as a fallow crop will continue 
to do well. 
The second mode alluded to as above, is, that clo- 
ver lands, or even English sward, after the first cut- 
ting, may be turned over, and planted with potatoes, 
with assurance of a good crop, provided the land be 
in good heart, and the seed of the English whites, 
and the planting be finished between the 1st and 20lh 
of July, with one or two hoeingS, as the season may 
require. This mode of tillage, gives the farmer not 
only a double profit upon his ground, but a double 
advantage in keeping his stock, and prepares his 
ground for a spring crop, as he may choose ; or he 
may even sow wheat to advantage after the potatoes, 
if the sward is not too stiff. 
Although the potatoc originated in America, and 
was not known in Europe, until after the discovery 
of Columbus in 1492*; it was little known in the 
husbandry of our forefathers ; so late as 30 years ago, 
if a farmer raised 100 bushels of potatoes in a sea- 
son, it excited particular notice; and now they are 
become one of our best crops, and our farmers often 
raise, 1, 2, or 3000 bushels the season, which always 
command a ready market, and a fair price. The 
value of the potatoe in feeding, beef cattle, hogs, 
sheep, horses and cows, is found, by the experience 
of the best farmers, to exceed in value any other 
feeding; even the Indian-corn. No feeding will af- 
ford that strength and support to working cattle, and 
enable them to bear the heat so well, as the potatoe. 
When I come to treat of stock particularly, I shall 
show in minute detail the practical calculations of 
the best farmers, both in England and America, upon 
• Tliey arc said to have been carried from Darien to Knsland, bv 
Sir Walter Raleigh, in the 16lh century. 
