AS A MANURE FOR POTATOES. 355 
every seven square yards—about 100 loads per 
-acre. Manured with horse-dung, cow-dung, and 
night-soil. 
This, as well as the former, is only an estimate, 
but both of them may be considered as nearly 
accurate. 
The result of these are placed in tabular forms 
like the preceding, and I have taken 70 yards by 
69, as being the nearest approximation to the sta- 
tute acre in every instance ; allowing 22 inches 
between each drill in plough, and 18 inches in 
spade labour. A statute acre comprising 113 
drills of the former, and 138 of the latter, of 70 
yards each. 
Ibs. loads. tons. yards. 
Mo.'G. ~23,450.....,.93'... 104... Lleadin 85 
Za. Aig aOe vane TO. 5 sey aes 9 72 
Chega AULD Ul palin pant (i tere peed oO! ladiater 5 100 
9s ZOU 552 OD” SEs 3 80 
There appears not much difference, between 
the produce of the drills prepared with the spade, 
and those with the plough, although the former 
exceeds the latter by 25 drills in the acre. 
In a slip of land, on Chat Moss, adjoining the 
