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In purfuit ofthefe ideas, the writer, the two lafl 

 years, adopted the following nnethod, which fully an- 

 fwered his expedlation. A particular of which, con- 

 taining an exadt account of the expences, quantity of 

 produce, amount of the crop at a certain price per 

 bufhel, and laftly, the nett profit of two ftatute acres 

 of land fo cultivated in the year 1788, is as below. 



In Dec. 1787, two ftatute acres were ploughed up 

 and lay rough through the winter. The February 

 following, the ground was well dragged, forty cart 

 loads of long dung were then equally fpread upon 

 the fame, and immediately ploughed in. The be- 

 ginning of April, furrows were drawn the length- 

 way of the field with a double- breafted plough, at 

 about two feet eight inches diftance one from the 

 other, in which the potatoe fets were dropped by 

 handi at the diftance of from 12 to 14 or 15 inches, 

 which were covered by fplitting the ridges with the 

 fame double-breafted plough, throwing one half of 

 the mould to the right hand, tlje other half to the 

 left, and by that means forming a ridge over each 

 rank of fets, and leaving a deep furrow in each in- 

 terval. In this fituation they continued till the fets 

 had ftiot five or fix inches. 



By that time the weeds began to appear in great 

 a})undance. A fmall common one-wheel plough 



was 



