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O^ober. jT. s. d. 



Brought forward 69 9 o 



Ploughing out, 20s. per acre - ' - 1200 



Carriage, pitting and fecuring - . 600 



Rent, &c. as before ^ - - 18 6 o 



^.105 15 9 



PRODUCE. 



968 facks, prime coft 2s. 2d. per fack. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



In this experiment, I endeavoured, as much as 

 poflibly I could, to afcertain the comparative pre- 

 ference due to ploughing or digging out, and I 

 found that a plough with two horfes, a man, a boy, 

 eight women to pick up, and two men to carry to 

 the waggons, could clear but little more than hah 

 an acre a day. The expence cannot therefore be 

 calculated at lefs than 20s. per acre. 



Thefe potatoes I could have had dug and carried 

 to the pits (if in the fame field) at four-pence per 

 fack, or il. 6s. 8d. per acre. Now the faving of 

 a few fhillings per acre is no compenfation for the 

 quantity bruifed by the tread of horfes, the number 

 left in the ground, let the pickers be ever fo care-^ 

 ful — and the want of pulverization, in comparifon 

 with digging: — befides, fcarce any mode of planting 

 could have been feledted for plough- work fo fa- 

 vourable as this. Had the potatoes been planted 



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