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as they ought, the product would have been 

 much greater. The tops were given to pigs ; 

 they feemed to like them better than any thing 

 elfe. Thefe fifteen perches are part of a field, 

 which, in 1774, had been highly manured 

 with dung for potatoes. In 1775, the roots 

 of the weeds (of which there were a great quan- 

 tity, particularly couch grafs and crow-foot) 

 were burnt, and the afhes and fome blue 

 fand fpread, and it was fown with turnips. 

 The latter end of March, thefe fifteen perches 

 were dug, and about the i6th of April fown 

 with a pound of carrot-feed ; they were twice 

 hoed, to deftroy the weeds which came up very 

 thick." 



In the winter of 1775, Mr. Bolton fed 10 

 working horfes on bull potatoes, twice a day 

 on oats, and once on potatoes ; the potatoes 

 given always at night ; the quantity to each 

 horfe I.*. peck of fmail ones ; and at the other 

 two feedings, half a peck each of oats. He 

 found that they fattened trje horfes very 

 much, and did exceedingly well on them. Va- 

 lue of the potatoes, 3$. a barrel. The cul- 

 ture of rape and turnips has been tried in this 

 neighbourhood alio by Mr. James' Wife, mer- 

 chant, of Waterford. 



In the beginning of June, 1 774, Mr. 

 ploughed lightly with a winged plough, and 

 burned the furface of near four acres of land, 

 which had not been tilled for many years. He 

 fpread the afhes 3 and manured tlie ground with 

 3 12 boat 



