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land, might to many gentlemen appear invidious. But left 

 I lead any into error, permit me to add, that the Norfolk 

 plough is not calculated for ftony or very hilly land ; nor 

 will it break pafture land properly to fow on one earth. 



Your mod obedient humble fervant, 

 Mr. Rack. GEORGE BOSWELL. 



Article LIX. 



An account of the Succefs of a late planted Crop 

 of Potatoes. 



Gentlemen, 



IN the month of June 1782, a gentleman near 

 Bath planted three acres and half of land with 

 potatoes of the long kidney- fhaped white kind 

 from Ireland. The foil was a lightifh loam, and 

 being virgin earth, no manure of any kind was 

 ufed. The ground was dug about eight or nine 

 inches deep, and the feed potatoes cut into fets, 

 and planted about a foot or fourteen inches apart, 

 in holes made with dibbles. Notwithstanding 

 the late time of planting, they grew very well, 

 and produced, when taken up in October, three 

 hundred and eighty facks of four buihels each 

 fack, or nearly four hundred and forty buihels per 



acre. 



