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about the middle of June, in rows three feet 

 afunder, and three feet from plant to plant 

 in the rows. If dry weather comes, they 

 require watering. In three weeks after 

 planting he horie-hoes them with Plate V. 

 Fig. 3. after which he hand-hoes around the 

 plants ; and thefe operations he repeats ac- 

 cording to the weeds that rife ; generally 

 from three to five horfe-hoeings. The 

 value he reckons at 4- d. each to feed any 

 fort of cattle with; ufes them chiefly for 

 the fatting of oxen, for which purpofe they 

 anfwer exceedingly well ; but I mould ap- 

 prehend them of a greater value than that, 

 efpecially as his foil is rich and deep. 

 Either beans or barley come after them, 

 according to the time they are off the 

 land. 



Of potatoes he raifes large crops ; his 

 method is to plant them in the beginning 

 of March, in rows two feet afunder, and 

 nine inches in the rows ; he dices them, 

 which is not generally done in Torkjlo'ire, 

 The land for them is dunged with long 

 yard dung, 32 loads per acre, and then 

 ploughed in pretty deep, and the fetts 

 dibbled in by a line : the rows he hand- 

 hoes, and horfe-hoes the intervals accord- 

 ing to the rifing of the weeds. I remarked 

 that his crop was very free from them, and 

 of a vigorous growth. 



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