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tivation. Upon manures he has tried an ex- 

 periment, which promifes to be of confider- 

 able confequence j upon fome land he took 

 in from a creek or Corke harbour, un- 

 der the flob or fea ooze he dug fome very fine 

 blue marie ; this he tried for potatoes againft 

 dung ; the crops to appearance very equal, but 

 upon meafuring zfpade of each, the part marled 

 yielded 14-lb. but that dunged only 71113. but 

 the dunging was not a confiderable one. It is 

 an object of prodigious confequence to be able 

 to get potatoes at all with marie. In the cul- 

 tivation of this root Mr. Oliver has introduced 

 the mode of planting them in drills, two feet 

 and a half afunder, with the plough, and found 

 that the faving of labour is exceedingly great, 

 but that the difference of crop is rather in fa- 

 vour of the common method : an acre which 

 yielded 1005 weights, the drilled 822, but fav- 

 ing in the feed of the drilled 60 weights, each 

 weight 2 lib. 



Mr. Oliver has jufl taken a farm of 400 acres 

 of land, wafte or exhaufted by the preceding 

 tenant by inceffant crops of corn ; this land 

 was rented as is. 6d. an acre, but Mr. Oliver 

 has tried it at 1 55. and is at prefent engaged in 

 making very great improvements on it 5 drain- 

 ing the wet parts, grubbing furze, fallowing, 

 liming, inclofing, and building offices, doing 

 the whole in the moft perfect manner, and will 

 foon make the farm carry an appearance very 

 different from what it ever did before. His 

 fallows for wheat had been well and often 



ploughed, 



