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For potatoes they plough thrice, give 

 the land a good coat of dung ; chufe the 

 dryeft foils for them ; and lay the dices in 

 every other furrow, one foot from plant to 

 plant. On coming up they plough be- 

 tween the rows, to deftroy the weeds ; a 

 pra6tice one would fuppofe fufficient to in- 

 troduce a good turnep culture univerfally ; 

 for thofe who fee the cfFeds of this opera- 

 tion on potatoes might furely extend the 

 idea to turneps. — They get 300 bufhels 

 per acre, and fow rye after them. 



Good grafs letts at 20 s. an acrcj they 

 apply it chiefly to dairying, and reckon that 

 an acre and half will feed a cow through 

 the fummer ; and an acre carry four iheep : 

 Very few of them manure their grafs. 

 Their breed of cattle is the long horned, 

 which they account much the heft. Their 

 beafts they fatten to about forty ftone. 



The produd of a cow they reckon at 50 s, 

 or 3/. that a middUng one will give 

 ffom two to four gallons of milk a day, 

 and make from four to ftven pounds oi 

 butter a week. They have no notion of 

 keeping hogs in confequence of cows ; a 

 dairy of twenty not maintaining above one 

 cr two. The winter food of their cows is 

 I ^ ftraw 



