Practical Remarks on the Culture of Potatoes.
THE recommendations lately publiſhed for cultivating the growth of this wholeſome vegetable occaſions the following remarks; which, if properly attended to, muſt be of general benefit to the community.
It is a fact known almoſt to every family, that the potatoes this year (1795) are for the moſt part wet, and conſequently that they loſe much of their flavour, and a conſiderable degree of their nouriſhment. The principal cauſe of this ariſes from the manner of planting them; and the fact ſtands in proof by the difference of the mode of cultivating them in England and Ireland.
In our fiſter kingdom, the ground is prepared by covering the ſurface with dung in oblong ridges, about five feet wide, and on this dung, the feed potatoes, cut into proper pieces, are placed at about fix inches aſunder. A trench is then dug on each ſide, the mould of which is thrown over the feed until the covering becomes about four inches thick; and thus the planting finiſhes.