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Article IX. 

 Account of a Crop of Potatoes raifed in 1782. 

 [By a Gentleman Farmer in Wiltmire.] 



Mr. Rack, 



JN compliance with your requeft, I fend you an 

 account of the culture and produce of a field 

 of potatoes laft year. 



The field was four acres and a half, the foil 

 very poor, being light, loofe, and fandy, not worth 

 more than 1 os. per acre ; it had been laid down 

 with grafs two years. In January, I carried on 

 ten waggon loads of dung per acre; and the month 

 following folded it over with my fheep, and then 

 ploughed it as deep as the ground would bear, 

 and harrowed it fmooth. 



In March I planted my potatoes, 18 bufhels 

 per acre: I had them cut in two, three, or four 

 pieces, according to their fize, and let them in 

 with iron bars, in ranks two feet afunder, and one 

 foot diftant in the ranks. They were of the large 

 white kind, with large eyes, but I know not the 

 name. Soon after they were up I had them hand- 

 hoed, 



