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as before, yielded 300 buflicls of picked 

 potatoes, and 50 biillicls of finall ones. 



One year Mr. IDalton had in the fame 

 field two crops, one of cabbages, the other 

 of potatoes ; botli of them were equally 

 manured. The whole was fown with barley 

 the next year, which proved better by a 

 quarter fer acre, after the potatoes than 

 after the cabbages. 



One of this gentleman's tenants planted 

 an acre of potatoes in the middle of a field 

 fallowed for turnips. All was dunged, and 

 the turnips fed off by Iheep. The w^hole 

 was fown with oats ; which crop was better 

 after the potatoes, by nine bulhels per acre, 

 than after the turnips. 



Thefe two experiments are both very 

 fatisfadory, and prove ftrongly the great 

 ameliorating nature of this moft ufeful 

 root. To exceed turnips manured, and fed 

 off vv^ith fheep, as a preparation for fpring 

 corn, is a circumftance greatly favourable ; 

 but then it fhould be remembered, that the 

 farmers do not hoe their turnips. 



Cabbages, this ingenious hufbandman 

 has tried more than once. In 1766, he had 

 two acres of the large ScotcJj fort, upon his 

 limcllone land, well dunged ; they were 

 planted the beginning of ^une^ in rows 

 four feet afunder, and 22 inches from plant 

 to plant. The average weight per cabbage, 

 was 4 lb. They v/cre given to cows, and 

 made 



