An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. 5331 n. cuUure of potato,


An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. 5331 n. cuUure of potato, in tke .^strict of KirUyrc is thus given by an . writer in the ^S£^l^^^^ -^r^i^^^S ol^^t-rk;^ to^^ .ven to preparatory other end, in order to afford time and room tor t»^ 'ff^^'me the ploughman has drawn three of these whore ths last operation is ^^endered necessary By the me tn^ plfnt the first of them, laying each shallow drills or furrows, the P'=[X/nches these are followed by others who put the dung on the op plant at a distance of Irom nine to/en inches ^nese i^ ^^^ ^^.^^ Theploughman, hav ng of it in the case already mentioned, where the ^f'''^^'f',, uA^,,,,,i,,,|,ing to the depth of seven inches completed seven of these drills, may '^^^f °â'- .,\°u,e S in?he tirk^ He then opens another of the between the first and second dr Us, so ^^^', =>, ,^'jXed^ is cross harrowed com- oric;inally, on the top of the plant, ^^hat 1. tim, I^oug ic apprehend to be derived froni this pletely level during the same afternoon, fe f>^f ^^.^^^^^'J.^f^,7^ saving of hand-hoeing. 1 am satisfied process is the loosening of the soil, '*«ti o> mg tne « eea. u 5 ^^ jh^ young growth of from my own particular 'Por'^nce and observa ion that ti or elsewhere, however forbid- '^iT'i^^^^^^^^y^^ ^^y^^^^' '° '''^ inexperienced in this particular this country, is called ' taking from the P0t'^^'^5''.'\'ue,:' of plants ; and in this situation they remain b


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