Summer (1)............., the days lengthened, and the weather became warmer, Alice and Jack spent many of their weakends (2)............... from home on (3)............. uncle's farm. In May, they helped to plant the potato. (4)................. Alice and Jack took a basket of seed potatoes and planted them between the ridges of the furrow
(5)................. intervals of twelve or eighteen inches.
When (6).............. planting was finished, the tractor was (7)............... to pull the plough to cover the potatoes. The plough was set in (8)............. a way that the ploughshares (9)................ into the ridges, pushing them to either side and tumbling the soil (10)................ the potatoes in the furrows.