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poor people take one or two more crops of 

 oats. 



4. Lay out for grafs from two to twelve years. 

 They fometimes burn for potatoes, efpecially on 

 the abfentee eftates, and get as good crops, as 

 in the other way. 



Expence of an acre of potatoes. 



Rent 300 



Seed o 1 8 o 



Planting and trenching, forty days of a man i o o 



Taking up and carrying home, &c. I o o 



Tythe 060 



6- 



PRODUCE. 



Seventy barrels at 35. 10 10 o 

 Expences 640 



Profit .4 



A difpute arifing upon the produce of po- 

 tatoes, Lord Shannon ordered fome fpades 

 fquare (each 54. feet) to be taken up, and weigh- 

 ed them ; the weight, on an average, 1 903. per 

 fpade, or 108 barrels per acre, each 252 ib. that 

 is, 12 weights to the barrel, each 2ilb. Thefe 

 were his own potatoes, and not an extra crop 

 at all, Barley is fometimes put in in ft ead of oats, 



and 



