Potatoes are gown at home. The amount varies from about half an acre in a cottage garden to one or two acres in a middle sized farm say of sixty or seventy acres and sometimes as many as four acres are sown on still bigger farms. Again a very big farm might contain less potatoes than one considerably smaller. The farmer himself prepares the ground, but almost all the big farmers keep a ploughman of their own.
When a field is ploughed two or three years in succession it is manured before it is turned up. They plough it in the manure. When a field is newly broken it is not manured until