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Potatoes

1  A writer in the Munster Magazine Agricultural recommends
shallow furrows, and the sets to be covered with four inches to
six of fresh stable Dung - very rank, then covered with a plough
to produce a great crop, when again ploughed the furrow
to be turned from the Rows and returned.

2  Mr T. A. Knight recommends planting seed potatoes not perfectly
matured by growing late the preceding year.
Munster Agricultural Magazine Oct. 1815

3. In Ireland it is now believed that Potatoes dug long before the stalks are
withered keep better, are more nutritious mealy [meaty] and firm- than left later.

4 It is a received opinion that plucking the apples from the Vine
throws more substance in the [illegible] & enlarges the Root makes the potatoe
[illegible] & firmer & exhausts the ground life.

1822 Sep 9.

Dug 4 Rows of Fox line potatoes planted with 6 cart loads
of long Cow manure in the rows - produced . . . . 13 Bushels
[sketch of index finger pointing right]
4  Rows planted every 4" furrow 6 loads manure first
spread broadcast & ploughed in as [illegible] both treated in the
same way afterwards . . . . 19 Bushels
difference [illegible] broadcast wanting 4 quarts . . 6 Bush[Bushels]
the Season after blossoming very dry & unfavorable
which obliged me to dig them early for fear of
a second growth.

3 pecks of Potatoes p[per] day with a little hay & meal
without water & kept without water in a close stable
fattened a cow in 5 weeks, gave 100[illegible] Fatten, in good
heart from grass Nov. 1. - (Timothy Pilkin Esq.)

Judge Sowell fattened a hog on potatoes and a little
Salt - without water.
        