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Potatoes they meafure by the barrel of 48 

 ftone : they plant 6 to the acre, and the ave- 

 rage produce 50 barrels. They never plant 

 them on the corcafs lands, for they will not 

 grow there. Mr. Fitzgerald, of Shepperton, 

 has had 100 barrels per acre; the favourite 

 forts are the apple, the Caftania, the Buck, 

 being a fpecies of the Howard. They fat pigs 

 on them ; but what much amazed me, was 

 fattening hogs on grafs, which they do very 

 generally, and make them as fat as a bullock, 

 but put them up to beans for three weeks to 

 harden the fat. Of bailey they fow 14 ftone 

 an acre, and get fix barrels, at 32 flone each. 

 Bere, two rowed barley, called Englijh here, 

 and four rowed, called Dutch, and of thefe the 

 bere yields befl. Mr. Singleton has had 40 

 barrels of bere per acre, each 16 ftone on the 

 corcafs land. Of oats they fow 21 ftone to the 

 acre, and get 12 barrels, on an average 14 

 ftone each; and on the corcafs land 16. Of 

 beans they fow 35 ftone to the acre, fow them 

 on the green fod foon after chriftmas, and 

 plough them in ; never hand-hoe or weed 

 them : the average crop 20 barrels, at 20 

 ftone; 30 the greateft; they are ufed for home 

 confumption in dear years, and for exportation 

 in cheap. The poor people make bread of 

 them, and eat them boiled, and they prefer a 

 bufhel of them to a bufhel of wheat ; but they 

 will not eat them, except in a fcarcity. No 

 peafe fown, but rape in confiderable quantities 

 in mountain grounds, or boggy, both of 

 which are burnt for it. They plough the 



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