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But to do juftice to the experiment, the fqcceed- 

 ing crop of wheat fhould be charged with at lead 4!, 

 anci chat fum added to the nett profit would amount 

 then to 12I. js. iO|d. per acre, for it would have 

 coft fo much at lead to have brought the barley 

 ftubble into fo perfcdl a tilth and fertile condition 

 as the potatoes left it in. 



It may be very proper to obferve, however, that 

 the culture of potatoes for fale, probably, cannot be 

 extended much farther, in many places at lead, the 

 markets being already ovcrftocked, and the price 

 fallen, feemingly more in proportion than the in* 

 creafe in quantity. Three or four years fince, the 

 current price of potatoes in this neighbourhood was 

 6s. per fack, and often more ; fometimes as high as 

 I2S. Laft year I foLd fome for as. 6d. none for 

 above ^s. and at prefent I have little profped of 

 difpofing of what I (hall have to fpare of the above 

 quantity, even at thofe low prices. 



Hence it becomes a queftion of very confiderable 

 importance, what is the real and intrinfick value of 

 this root to the grower when applied to feeding of 

 his own dock, from the time of taking it up to the 

 time of planting, fay from Odlober to May follow- 

 ing, that is, feven months out of the twelve. If this 

 fhould be found to anfwer in any defirable degree, 



the 



