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he refolveJ to purfue the method always: he planted (lioots at the 

 fame time, which failed on account of the drj/iiefs of the feafon. 

 Scrooped eyes plant a greater quantity of ground than the fame 

 potatoes cut into fets, each eye being fcooped out fiir^lc ; common 

 cuts have often two or three. To try the eft*e6l of fniall fets with 

 finale eyes, the Kcv. Dr Biitler cut off the crowns of the potatoes, 

 in which mofh of the eyes are lodged, and by this means faved 

 the other half; each eye was cut out, making a fmall fet ; fevcn 

 acres were thus planted by twenty barrels of potatoes ; nothing 

 could be more productive ; from twelve ftone of Barber'* s wonders^ 

 the produce was thirty- four barrels; but he does not approve 

 of fmall fets, or fcoops ; nor will he ever again plant them : he is 

 convinced, that had not the rain fallen moll critically, hefhouid have 

 liad no crop : he fuppofes that there is not fufhcient moiflure in 

 the fcoop to feed the plant, until it forms new glands : that, fa 

 moiil weather, and in rich ground, the nourilhment from the fet 

 may not be required ; but in the generality of ground, in dry 

 weather, the plant cannot thrive unle's it has glan.ls to iupply it 

 with moifture at (irfl. Add to this alfo, the plants being weak- 

 er are more liable to be attacked bj the red worm, as was ob- 

 lerved in fome places.' 



Several very intelligent communications refpe(5llng the mode o£ 

 culture in various pariflics are prefented ; but we are forry that 

 it is altogether out of our power to make extra(3;s. Perhaps, on. 

 a future occafion, we may lay fome of them before our readers. 



The courfes of crops ufually followed are far from being per- 

 fe6l, and one general fucceffion feerns to be attempted, viz. fallow 

 or potatoes, wheat, barley, on the bell grounds, where the farms 

 are large ; and, in the fmall farms, fallow is altogether omitted, 

 and no corn fown but after potatoes. In the poorer grounds, oats 

 are fubHituted for w^heat, and potatoes and 6ats are raifed alter- 

 nately for 14 or 16 years, when the ground is It't out to grafs. 

 In the wheat diflricl, there are lands that have been cropped from 

 time immemorial ; a.'d from fome of them a crop of potatoes and 

 five crops of corn are taken after one manuring. Our author 

 feelingly cenfures fuch abfurd management. 



He fays, page 279, ' According to the preient management, parti- 

 cularly ill the wheat dill rid, the foil continually decreafes in va- 

 lue, and the crops in goodnefs ; lime, the only manure ufed io-any 

 quantity, diminilhes greatly in cffjft every time it is applied ; the 

 greatell part of the farm, which is let out (left in grafs), is rather 

 wafle than pallure, and for many years totally unprofitable, aftet 

 having been exhaufled ; no Hock is kept to make manure ; no 

 meadowing produced; the hay, even for the horfe-team, is bought, 

 »l a great price, from the low grounds, that cannot be tilled, near 



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