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 Brought over - ;C*° ^5 



;C-2 4 6 



At 14 lb. each, they amount to 34 tons, 

 5 cwt. /'i'r acre. 



Thefe inftrudions are clear, judicious, 

 and truly the refult of experience : I need 

 not therefore add, that they are peculiarly 

 valuable. They fufficiently prove how im- 

 portant an object cabbages are in rural 

 ceconomics : And alfo how extremely fen- 

 fible this gentleman's introduction of them 

 to a country that abounds with fo valuable 

 a breed of Ih-ep, without poiTefTmg any 

 fpring-food for them, but the ruin of their 

 paftures. 



Potatoes, Mr. Crowe has cultivated for 

 many years, and generally from one to four' 

 acres. His method is to make them a fallow 

 year. Winter fallows for them, manuring 

 with long dung or haulm. He plants 

 them in Aprils in rows two feet afunder, 

 the fets nine inches from each other, 12 

 bufhels to an acre. He horfe-hoes them 

 with a common plough four or five times ; 

 but the firft operation is to harrow the land 

 over as foon as they are up,' to level it ; 



befide 



