FRANCE. 295 



1. Dug quite fine, to depth of 6 inches 



2. I foot 



3. 1* foot 



4. 2 feet. 

 The refult, one and one and an half feet 



were equal ; fix inches the next, and two 

 feet inferior to the others. 



Correfponding experiments were tried on 

 parihj.ps, and the refult the fame as carrots. 



On potatoes he tried in refpeft of feed, 



1. Whole and large potatoes planted 



2. Ditto fmall 



3. Ditto very fmall 



4. Large flices, with feveral eyes 



5. Ditto, with tingle ones. 



The refult was, that the beft produce 

 was from the large flices with feveral eyes ; 

 the very fmall ones yielded fcarce any 

 Crop. 



In manuring with fand, clay, horfe, cow, 

 fheep, and fwine dung, the fwine and horfe 

 were equal and beft ; land and clay bad. 



Of the importance in general of manuring 

 the foil for them, it appeared, on trial, 

 that a piece, manured at the rate of thirty 

 tons of the fwine dung to the acre, yielded 

 after the proportion of fix hundred bufhels 

 U 4 per 



