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on them ; btfides, being planted fo clofe, fuch a 

 putrid fermentation is created by the thick fhade of 

 the potatoe, that the foil is more meliorated, and 

 weeds more compleatly deftroyed, than in any other 

 method. Horfe-hoeing cuts the potatoes, and 

 tears the fibres or firings on which the bulbs are 

 formed. 



I (hall now proceed to a detail of my experi- 

 ments, which comprehend feven years trial on a 

 pretty large fcale, and in various ways of plantings 

 and though many, who have been fanguine in their 

 ideas refpeding this root, may be difappointed at 

 the coUedive refult, I can only fay, that perhaps as 

 much benefit may accrue from recording an unfuc* 

 cefsful as from the moft flattering and fucccfsful 

 experiment. 



1784. 



EKPERIMEMT NO, I. SEVEN ACRES. 



Culture, expences, and produce, of a field of feven 

 acres, foil a gravelly loam, on a bed of limeflone 

 rock, value about 8s. per acre. This field was, 

 in 1 7 83, part of the foreft of Mendip, and was in 

 its uninclofed ftatc worth about 3s. 6d. per acre. 



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