28o FLORENCE COURT. 



of bo£ reclaimed, and 120 of mountain. In 

 1773, 38 moor, and 120 bog. No draining 

 done by the farmers, but much by the gentle- 

 men. 



Potatoes they plant all on lays ; plant four 

 barrels per acre, each ban el 6 cwt. they are 

 meafured by the peck, fo piled up as to weigh 

 3 ftone each: the price from 5s. to 16s. the 

 barrel -, average, 8s. No hiring of land merely 

 for planting potatoes, but the farmers will let 

 the cottars take a crop of potatoes, if they 

 dung the land. The produce, on an average, 

 will be 32 barrels: thirty-two men will fet an 

 acre a day, with live children : when the pota- 

 toes appear, they fhovel the furrows, which 

 four men will do in a day : eight men will weed 

 an acre in a day, and lixty-four men will take 

 them up. 



Expenses. 



