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which he sold at L. 418 : 6 : 2. Robert Cameron, in East 

 Walkingshaw, near Paisley, raised 60 bolls per acre, from 

 moss-ground. Potatoes are usually sold at from L. 18 to 

 L.28 per Scotch, or L.24 : 7 : 8 per English acre, the 

 purchaser digging up and removing the crop. In a field, 

 near Elderslee-house, potatoes, planted without dung, after 

 a crop of oats, from old pasture, to which no manure had 

 been given, sold at L. 27 per Scotch acre. 



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

 lowing plan in the cultivation of potatoes : 1 . He cross- 

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

 and, 4. The ground is either drilled for potatoes, or an- 

 other ploughing given, and the potatoes planted after the 

 plough in every third furrow. He usually follows the last 

 mode, as he thinks it best calculated to do justice to the 

 ground, and generally brings a good crop. Repeated 

 ploughings after the manure is applied, cannot however be 

 recommended. The expences, besides rent and dung, may 

 be stated as follows : 



Seed per acre, 2| bolls, (52 stone Amsterdam, 17^ Ibs.) at 

 12s. per boll, L. 1 10 



Cutting the seed, 026 



Planting, 040 



Cleaning, after being horse-hoed, 12 



L. 2 86 



Potatoes at Perth sold this year at about L. 15 or 15 

 guineas per Scotch acre ; and if L. 5 is supposed for rent, 

 and L. 5 for dung, it will appear that there is not too much 

 profit for so much labour, and that the chief profit lies, in 

 the state of preparation the ground is brought into, for the 



