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Mallet. This was valued by the commifTioners at 

 as. 6d. per acre. In the month of March I fet 

 fire to the furze; after which the field was 

 marked out in beds eight feet wide, allowing in- 

 tervals of four feet for the alleys. On thefe beds 

 hog's-dung was fpread, after the rate of 30 cart- 

 loads per acre. On the dung the. fets were de- 

 pofited, iS inches by 9. 



Thf rough furface of the intervals or alleys was 



^ then (kimm'd off, and placed between the fetsj 



after which a fpit of mould was dug to cover 



with, leaving the loofe earth or crumbs to be 



fliovelled in after the potatoes were up. 



The produce of this field being well fecured, was 

 kept to the following May, and then all fold 

 at the price of 9s. per fack. This exhibits a re- 

 markable inftance of the value of a potatoe crop 

 in fome circumdances. The produce amounted 

 to forty times the value of the land in fee. 



EXPENCXS. 



1787, March. £, s, d. 



Burning furze - - - 010 



JpriL 



Planting, 35s. per acre - - 3 10 o 



Dung, 3s. per load - -900 



Scotch feed and cutting - -600 



Carried over ^.i8 no 



