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which I could apply to no other ufe than 

 treading into dung ; for the few markets in 

 this place I prefently fupplied at fo low a 

 price as 6d. a bushel. After the potatoes, 

 I had as fine a crop of buck-wheat as ever 

 I beheld. This great fuccefs made me en- 

 large my undertakings : I built two new 

 barns, a large building of a particular form 

 to lay up potatoes in, a granary, and {land- 

 ings for feventy head of cattle, befides three 

 new inclofures for fheep and fwine : I alfo 

 expended a confiderable fum in purchafing 

 a great herd of young heifers, and a new 

 flock of ewe-ftieep. In order to increafe my 

 growth of potatoes, which I knew would 

 fo well fupport them, I took in frefh pieces 

 of land of every fort, making it a rule to 

 inclofe as I advanced, and finifh near my 

 houfe, before I undertook any of my diftant 

 lands. I tried wheat, rye, barley, buck- 

 wheat, fpelt, maize, millet, flax, hemp, 

 vines, mulberry-trees, and, in a word, al- 

 moft every production which is known on 

 the befl lands in the fouthern parts of the 

 kingdom ; and, what is not a little furpri- 

 fing, there is not one article in which I 

 failed of fuccefs, though I have abandoned 



feveral, 



