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commonly profitable. In numerous places 

 I was allured that they made infinitely more 

 by potatoes than by any other crop. The 

 price of them are various, but at is. 6d. a 

 buftiel, the average product amounts to above 

 28/. but is. 6d. is a low price. It is a great 

 error in many parts of this kingdom not cul- 

 tivating potatoes in large quantities. 



No fallow crop is more advantageous to 

 the foil, nor could there be a greater im- 

 provement in three-fourths of the counties 

 of England, than introducing potatoes into 

 the courfes of their fields, as regularly, upon 

 foils proper for them, as turneps, or any other 

 vegetable. 



The common objection to cultivating 

 them in large quantities, is the want of a 

 market ; but fuch a plea is an abfolute piece 

 of gothicifm. The moft advantageous ufe 

 they can be applied to, where they bear an 

 high price, moft certainly is to fell them ; 

 but where the prices are low, or the market 

 overftocked, this root fhould be applied to 

 feeding and fattening cattle, in which the 

 profit will be very great, both in the price 

 paid for the crop, and in the great improve- 

 ment of the farm, by railing large quantities 

 of manure ; an object which ought always to 

 be foremoft with every farmer. The intel- 

 ligence received of Mr. Crowe, of this ap- 

 plication of his crops at Kiplin, to feeding 

 all forts of cattle and poultry, is particularly 



valuable ; 



