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feafon for planting beans in March, but potatoes 

 Ihould not be planted before the middle of April 

 at fooneft; but in mofl: years, the beginning of 

 May is fafer and better. 



Lad year I planted about three quarters of an 

 acre the 15th and i6th of April; they came up 

 well, and looked very fine and vigorous. On the 

 morning of the 21ft of May, there was a fliarp 

 hoar froft, which Ihrivelled up the greens of the 

 potatoes as if they had been fcorched by fire- the 

 confequencc was, the ftalks died down to the ground, 

 and appeared as if all deflroyed ; however, in fome 

 time they (hot forth again, and produced a better 

 crop, all things confidered, than I expected. The 

 produce was thirty-fix facks and a half on three 

 quarters of an acre, (2401b. to the fack) which at 

 four fiiillings a fack, (the prefent price here) come 

 to 7I. 6s. being after the rate of 9!. 14s. 8d. per 

 acre. Had this land been prepared in the manner 

 above dcfcribed, I cannot have a doubt but the 

 produce would have been double at IcalL The 

 land was in wheat the preceding year. I could 

 not get pofTcffion till January 1785, and by reafon 

 of fnow and hard frofi, it could not be ploughed 

 till late in March. It was thrown into narrow 

 ridges, by two bouts of the plough ; and the po- 

 tatoe fcts, inrtcad of being planted in the furrows 



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