potato-planting

I consulted my books on the subject of potato-planting.

Archive 2009-02-01 Jean 2009

There was one moment of triumph during potato-planting week.

The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

We were through with the field-work at last, and the potato-planting was done; after that, Nils and the lad could manage the daily work by themselves, and I went up to my new work among the timber.

A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings 2003

They picked up the pails and the hoe with which they had been covering the hills and went to the house, carrying a burden that made a potato-planting day a thing of no consequence.

The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger

To picture the great potato-planting machine, drawn by four horses, or an electric motor, ploughing the furrow, cutting and dropping and covering the potatoes, and planting a score of acres a day!

The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

The older son told how much milk a certain Alderney cow had given, and Mr. Stanley, quite changed now as he sat at his own table from the rather grim farmer of the afternoon, revealed a capacity for a husky sort of fun, joking Ben about his potato-planting and telling in a lively way of his race with me.

The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment David Grayson 1908

I remained with them the entire day following the potato-planting.

The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment David Grayson 1908

He explained the process of potato-planting: cutting them into pieces so that there was an eye in each piece, and so forth.

The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

To picture the great potato-planting machine, drawn by four horses, or an electric motor, ploughing the furrow, cutting and dropping and covering the potatoes, and planting a score of acres a day!

The Jungle 1906

We were through with the field-work at last, and the potato-planting was done; after that, Nils and the lad could manage the daily work by themselves, and I went up to my new work among the timber.

Wanderers Knut Hamsun 1905