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1. The Potato Crop

   

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   Every year my father grows a big crop of potatoes. My father grows the same ammount each year and he puts down an acre every year.
   The ground is manured before it is plouged. Spades were used long ago instead of ploughs. Ploughs are used nowadays.
   It is ploughed and it is settled before the potatoes are set.
   We set the potatoes in four sod ridges each year.
   Then the ridges are covered with clay and with a shovel.
   If a person has his potatoes covered before his neighbour he helps him.
   After a while the stalks come up.
   My father picks all the weeds odd the ridges when the stalks are growing.
   My father fills a barrel of water and leaves a bag half full of blue stone and leaves in steeping for one night in the barrel and in the morning he puts in a half gallon of water and washing soda dissolved in it.
   Then he sprays the potatoes three times with a spraying machine.
   In Autumn my father digs the potatoes with a

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