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two bontings will soffioe. The second is tiie setter mode.
If the gromid be in a dammj state, tiie |doogh should
not be nsed at alL

If an empty onthoose can be qpaied fin* storing the
potatoes, th^ should be laid on the floor, but not in too
thick a mass, lest heating and prranataie germination
should be the consequence. Potatoes cannot be k^ in a
morefraih and healthj condition than byleaving l^em dur-
ing the winter in the land, provided it be perfectly porous
aim dry, and that a reiy heavy coToring of sedge, reeds,
or any such material, be laid over the undug crop. No
heating, no rotting can ensue with such management.
But, generally, potatoes are heaped up in a sharp ridge
form,in what is called apt^, though this is but a few inches
deep — a shallow bed about four feet in breadth, and of eon-
venient length ; they are covered up, when raised to a suffi-
cient height, wit^ earth, beaten closely with spades, and
so inclined at the sides and ends that none of them can
slip down. The potato haulm should not be laid between
the potatoes and the crust of earth, as it soon becomes
mouldy, and tends to rot the potatoes in contact with
it; nor is even diy straw useful for enveloping the
potatoes.
Bye may now be sown on ploughed wheat stubbles, in
a small degree, for the first spring green food, either for
a milch cow or for sheep. The seed should be sown
early in this month, that the plants may be vigorous
before the frost affects them. This is one of the inter-
calaiy crops which may be occasionally introduced with
convenience, and without derangement of the rotation.
