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From Caftle Martyr, September 20, to Caftle 



Mary, the feat of Longfield, Efq; who 



keeps a great quantity of land in his hands. 

 Has cultivated the potatoes, called here bulls, 

 that is, the Englifh cliifter, very much for cat- 

 tle, but nobody will eat them ; he has from fix 

 to eleven acres yearly : plants them in the 

 common manner, and gets 120 barrels an acre, 

 of 20 ftone each. I faw a fpade of five feet 

 and a half fquare, dug the produce 23lb. on 

 very poor land. On fand and fea weed the fame 

 fpace of London ladies, weighed 27 Ib. Ma- 

 nures for them with fea fand and weed, bat 

 not with dung ; gives them to his horfes and. 

 bullocks : and when he gives his horfes pota- 

 toes, they have no oats. It is furprifing to fee 

 how fond horfes are of them ; they do very well 

 on them raw, but the beft way is to boil them, 

 as they will then fatten the horfes. The bul- 

 locks are equally fond of them, and will follow 

 him to eat them out of his hand. Sheep are the 

 fame, and will get into the fields to fcrape them 

 up : upon the whole, Mr. Longfield is per- 

 fuaded that no root or crop in the world is 

 more beneficial to a farmer than this potatoe, 

 fo that he fhould have continued in turnips, 

 which he has cultivated largely but has found 

 this root fo perfectly ufeful, that he has ex- 

 perienced the abfolute dependence which may 

 be placed on them for winter provifion of ail 

 forts. And what is of infinite confequence, 

 the culture may be extended to what quantity 

 you pleafe, without the afliflance of dung, with- 

 out which other potatoes cannot be managed. 



Mr. 



