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hand-hoed at 6s. per acre. After this no other 

 attention was ncceflary, as the plants grew fo 

 thick, and fo entirely covered the land, as to 

 finother all weeds. When the foil is good, and 

 plenty of manure can be afforded, this is an ex- 

 cellent method i the earth is not poached by 

 tread of horfes, and by digging is depofited fo 

 Ughtly on the potatoes, that the roots are not 

 checked in their extenfion. I do not approve of 

 very wide intervals, either in corn, pulfe, or roots; 

 and perhaps the drilling of corn, which feems to 

 be the rage of the day, will be but a Ihort-lived 

 pradtice, I could ftate many objeftions to it^ 

 arifing from my own experiences but I do not 

 from this infer that it is not an eligible plan oi\ 

 very porfoilsy which want fummer hoeings to 

 enable them to bring their crops to perfedion. 



EXPENCES. 



Firft and fecond ploughings and harrowing, as in 



preceding experiment - .. 440 



Manure - - - - 21 12 o 



1785, Ma^, 



Planting, i8s. per acre - • 10 16 o 



Seed, 96 facks, at 6s. per fack - - 28 16 o 



June, 



Hand -hoeing, 6s. per acre . 3 12 o 



Keeping off birds (rooks) - - 090 



Carried over ^f .69 9 



