CHAP VIII.

OF TAKING UP THE CROp.

Authorities from the Reports.

mould-board, drawn by three horſes, or four oxen. It enters the ground

under the bed of the potatoes, and'throws the whole to the ſurface(a). In Northumberland, they are frequently taken up with the double-mould-

board plough, by ſplitting the ridges in which they grow(H). 3

In the North Riding, the one-bout ridges are ploughed, and the crop

thereby laid bare(.) At Aveley, in Efſex, the crops are dug with three-prong forks: expence forty fhillings per acre(). In Lancafhire, generally dug with a three-prong fork(e In the Iſle of Man, dug up with three-prong forks. A good hand gets up eight heaped buſhels in a day, without the aſfiſtance of a picker.(Sh

Oeher Authorities.

Mr. Buck, of Suffolk, ploughs up without a coulter, and neither the horſes nor the plough injure the roots(Ʒã.. 3 4

Mr. Noung, in Suffolk, found avery great ſaving from the invention of a fmall one-horſe harrow; which, by breaking the furrow after the plough has turned it, and is picked, expoſes all the reſt of the potatoes to be ſeen by pickers 9). 1. 1 e. S

In Vorkfhire, they formerly ploughed them up, but laid aſide that me- thod, in favour of digging them up with dung-forks, which they found better ſa)*—

la) Hereford, p. 64. 0 Northumberland p. 40. ſc) North Riding, p. 44. Id) Eſſex, Vancouver.(e) Lancaſter, p. 33.() Iſle of Man, p. 36. 1) Vol. 5, 7252 of Annals. ſk) Society Tranſ. vol. 4. p. 73.

45 Mlarlal Vork, vol. a. p. 62.

TN Herefordfhire, Mr. Veald ploughs them up with a particular machine, I having four prongs or barbs of iron with a fang, in the form of a double-

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