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other relative circumstances. A potato crop will average 

 from 40 to 50 bolls per acre. They will sometimes fall 

 short of 40, but many have reaped more than 60 bolls 

 from one acre. General Spense sold last year a po- 

 tato crop, for part of which he was paid L. 29 per acre, 

 and potatoes were raised from part of the field, at the va- 

 lue of 80 bolls per acre. Andrew Moodie, Esq; reaped, 

 for a first crop, upon deep moss, near Paisley, from 

 17^ acres, near one acre of which was occupied with 

 roads, ditches, &c. 774 bolls of potatoes, which he sold 

 at L. 418 : 6 : 2. Robert Cameron, in East Walking- 

 shaw, near Paisley, raised 60 bolls per acre, from moss- 

 ground. Potatoes are usually sold at from L. 18 to L. 28 

 per acre, the purchaser digging up and removing the 

 crop. In a field, near Elderslee House, potatoes, plant- 

 ed without dung, after a crop of oats, from old rested 

 land, to which no manure had been given, sold at L. 27 

 per acre. 



Mr Andrew of Tillilumb, near Perth, adopts the fol- 

 lowing plan in the cultivation of potatoes, i. He cross- 

 ploughs. 2. Puts in the dung. 3. Ploughs a second 

 time ; and, 4. The ground is either drilled for potatoes, 

 or another ploughing given, and the potatoes planted af- 

 ter the plough in every third furrow. He usually fol- 

 lows the last mode, as he thinks it best calculated to do 

 justice to the ground, and generally brings a good crop. 

 The expences, besides rent and dung, may be stated as 

 follows : 



Seed per acre, 2f bolls, (32 stone Amsterdam,) at 12 s. 

 per boll, " ( L. i 10 o 



Cutting seed, 026 



Planting, 040 



Cleaning, after being horse-hoed, o ia o 



L.a 8 6 



