DIGGING POTATOES.
A correspondent of the Country Gentleman writes :—"ln: — "In the absence of a good potato digger, the idea of ploughing them out i 3 not a bad one. I have tried it with good success. Where land is passably clean, and the potatoes lie in the centre of the hill, like the Early Rose, Peerless, and Excelsior, take a common double mould - board shovel plough, hitch on two horses and plough out every other row. Have the potatoes picked up, and plough the alternate rows. When they are all ploughed out, and those that can be seen picked up, run over the ground with a common, harrow (Thomas's Smoothing Harrow would undoubtedly be much better), and the potatoes will be out as clean as though dug by hand, and in less than half the time the same help would do the work by hand digging. In two pieces where I dug them in that way, I think there were leas potatoes left in the ground than would be left by my most hand diggers. The first piece I dug ia this manner I ploughed immediately for rye, and I was surprised to find so few potatoes left."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1319, 10 March 1877, Page 18
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