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Remarks on the Experiment above Jiated. 



The plot with fetts or cuttings laboured under feme dif- 

 advantage. Being the uppermoft piece in the field, and ha- 

 ving a high hedge of my neighbour's to the fouth-eaft, the 

 land was vifibly poorer, and the potatoes of an inferior fize 

 for fome yards below the hedge, to what they were at a 

 greater diftance from it. Add to which, the drills being all 

 ftruck with a plough for planting, the two corners which the 

 plough could not touch, and which were intended to have 

 been planted with a fpade, were unfortunately overlooked 

 and left uncropped. I calculate the deficiency from thefe 

 caufes at about four or fi.ve bafkets. 



The plot with Jhoots laboured under ftill greater difadvan- 

 tages. The time of planting being of courfe later than that 

 of the other forts, the feafon being very drj^, and the ground 

 very hard and Honey, the workmen had a difficult matter to 

 put in the (hoots ; which, however, they did in part with 

 fpades, and in my abfence from home. On my return 

 I ordered a plough into the field, and placing the fhoots in 

 every'other furrow at about nine inches diftance, with their 

 green tops above ground, the plantation v/as fini(hed in an 

 eafy and expeditious manner. 



Another difadvantage to this plot was, that I was not 

 well aware of the quantity of potatoes necelTary to be laid 

 in the ground for my purpofe. The firft crop was only 

 fufficient for about half the plot : of courfe we were obliged 

 to wait the growth of a fecond crop; which delayed the 

 planting fo long, that they were expofed to the drought be- 

 fore they had taken good root, and hence ripened late : the 

 other fhoots ripened in good feafon. Befides, the two head- 

 lands being obliged to be put in with a fpadc, as well as a 

 fpot whiclv, on account of an adjoining crop, we could not 

 come at with a plough, and all planted with flioots of a 

 tliird growth, the fecond not producing fufficient to finilh 

 tlie whole, produced, from the very late and dry feafon in 



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