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r^he ufual mode i&ihis. After the fuperabundant water 

 end Brings (if any) are cut off, a certain portion of the 

 furface is burned,, to aflift in the manuring for pota- 

 toes j indeed very often the crop entirely depends upon 

 the quantity of afties fo procured, without any afliftance 

 from other manures, and generally very plentiful crops 

 are produced the firft feafon. Two jfocceeding crops 

 of potatoes are always taken off > the fecond crop is 

 generally drilled, and, of caurfe,'a fmali portion of ma- 

 nure ferves ; but this manure is commonly compofed 

 pf^ich mould and dung; ames, hemjg.fcldoin ufec} the 

 fecond feafon, ancUiefpecially where they have been 

 ufed the ^receding year, as it is wdl known they are 

 too exhaufting upon foils, if copioufly applied, from 

 the great propenfity they have of abforbiug the native 

 oii from the foiL : - OT moD orh fc 



Oats is the ufual crop to lay down with, with plenty 

 of hay-feeds, chiefly of the wbite meadow kinds, which 

 arc found to thrive beft, and laft longeft, in mofl of 

 thofe foils. 



For the firfl crop of potatoes the labourers are not 

 charged, but for the fecond crop they pay at the rate 

 of forty (hillings an acre. The crop of oats the third 

 year is worth 4/. an acre, clear of all expence ; fo that 

 this brings a yearly profit to the proprietor, during the 

 operation, of thirty (hillings annually, allowing an an- 

 "nual rent of ten (hillings an acre for the original value 

 of the land, had it not been brought into a courfe of 



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