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the weed-manure was fpread, half fteril as this fpaCc 

 was, were prcduced ears clofer, larger, and with 

 fuller grain, than on a deeper foil extended on a 

 level round it, which had a natural advantage, and 

 a drefling of common manure. 



On a part of that fpace which I have in the 

 former experiment mentioned, where this compoft 

 was almoft entire, and where favoy and turnip cab- 

 bage grew, in the fpring of this year I planted ten 

 whole potatoes, at about eighteen inches diftance 

 from each other, whole average weight was about 

 four ounces, and equidiflant; the parings of about 

 fourteen potatoes in nine divifions; the produce as 

 taken up the beginning of 06lober, was from the ten 

 whole ones twenty- nine pounds four ounces ; from 

 the nine divifions of parings twenty-nine pounds 

 twelve ounces. From among thefe latter (a cafe 

 of fome admiration to me) there arofe the largell 

 bulbs; two from thefe parings weighing thirty- 

 one ounces : the two largeft from the whole fcts, 

 twenty-five ounces: it may be requifite.to remark 

 that the parings were from larger roots than the 

 whole fets. Thefe, from being pared thick, might 

 have their grofs weight diminifhed about one fourth, 

 the other three-fourths anfwered their ufual pur- 

 pofes. It may not be an ufelefs intimation to 



obfcrve. 



