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beflde the horfe-hoeings, they are well 

 hand-hoed, as faft as the weeds get up. At 

 Martinmas they are ploughed up, unlefs 

 the land is for v/heat ; in which cafe, they 

 are titken up at Michaelmas. The average 

 produce 120 bufhels per acre. Wheat is 

 better after them than after a fallow. If any 

 thing befides dung is ufed for them, as 

 fometimes haulm, thatch, fern, ruflies, ^c. 

 they are laid on a heap and covered with 

 fome dung at top about Michaelmas^ to be 

 fomewhat rotten in the fpring when ufed: 

 This is an excellent practice, and worthy of 

 imitation, as it all contributes to make the 

 clay light. 



This gentleman has made fome difco-" 

 veries in the ufe of them, which are very 

 important. When boiled, nothing feedsr 

 poultry better, and hogs fatten upon them 

 excellently. All forts of young cattle in the" 

 farm-yard, he has found, will cat them raw^ 

 but if boiled they will be more ncurifhingi 

 and go much farther. This is the refult of 

 experience, and defer ves great attention 5 

 for in foils that are fuitable to this root, 

 the quantity produced from a fevvr acres is 

 prodigious, many hundred head of cattle^ 

 might be wintered, with the application oJf 

 very little land to this ufe. 



If the potatoe foil is dry, Mr. Crowe 

 covers the tops of the ridges (of fuch as are 

 for family uie) with long Ilraw, haulm, ^c. 



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