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ground intended for them, the funnnner before, had 

 borne oats and vetches, which were mowed green, 

 and given to the horfes in the liable j after which 

 it was depaftured till January. It was then clean 

 ploughed, and lay till the end of March. Twenty- 

 four cart-loads of long dung, forty bufhels to the 

 load, were then fprcad over it equally. Furrows 

 were then drawn the length way of the field, at a 

 yard diftance from each other. In eleven of thefe 

 furrows, containing fixty perch or pole, were dropped 

 fourteen bufliels of whole or uncut potatoes, the 

 fize generally from a large pullet's egg to that of a 

 goofe. The remainder of the ground, being 265 

 poles, making in the whole 325 pole, or two ftatute 

 acres and five pole, was planted with thirty-four 

 bufhels of cut potatoes, being the remainder of the 

 forty-eight bufhels. Thefe were cut moftly out 

 of large potatoes, in pieces about the fize of a large 

 pullet's egg. The largeft were cut into fix or 

 eight pieces, the lefler into four; being careful to 

 preferve a proper number of eyes or buds in each 

 cutting. The fets of both cut and uncut were 

 planted about fourteen inches afunder, in the rows. 

 The furrows were turned out with a plough having 

 a double mould-board, which, when planted, were 

 compleatly covered by running the fame plough up 

 the middle of each interval, which threw the mould 



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