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 it, and harrowed in oats; but the crop was 

 fo poor, that he was quite difcouraged. 

 Being informed that potatoes would thrive 

 on fuch land, he planted the whole field 

 with them the year following. Thefe, with- 

 out the leaft culture, while they were grow- 

 ing, became a prodigious crop ; he thinks 

 not lefs than a thoufand bufhels to every 

 acre. Of thefe he fold, at three or four 

 markets, as many as paid him all the ex- 

 pences of his beginning, and left himavaft 

 quantity, which, not knowing what to do 

 with, he gave to his cows, hogs, young 

 beads, and working oxen. It was fome 

 time before any thing but the hogs would 

 eat them ; but, by degrees, liking them 

 better, they proved of fuch an amazing ufe 

 to all his cattle, that he then determined 

 never to be without them, for the purpofes 

 of feeding all his cattle, befides felling what 

 he could. Upon this ground he took a fe- 

 cond crop of them, which was even better 

 than the firft ; and alfo planted them for the 

 firft crop on another piece of the bog; but 

 here they quite failed, which again alarmed 

 him much; but attributed it to the right 

 caufe, the land not being in order for any 



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