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1 have treated of the culture of potatoes iri 

 Se^flion XV. I am of opinion that potatoes 

 Would fucceed extremely well after paring and 

 burning. I never tried the experiment, nor 

 do I know any one who has -, but, where land 

 is full of grafs roots, it is cheaper to burn than 

 colled: and remove them; and, in a bad feafon 

 for getting grafs-roots or weeds from the land, 

 burning before the potatoes are fet I think to 

 be the beft method. If potatoes are fet the 

 laft week in May, or the firft week in June, it 

 would be early enough to have a good crop. If 

 a man wants prefent profit, he cannot do better 

 than fet potatoes : if he wilhes to improve the 

 land, let him fovv turnips, and eat them offwith 

 Iheep. If the tops of potatoes, inflead of being 

 fufFered to remain on the ground until they 

 perifh, were cut in time, it is certain they would 

 afford food for numbers of cattle; and you 

 might continue cutting them through the fum- 

 mer for that purpofe, and thus raife a large 

 dunghill for the benefit of the land; but it 

 would injure the potatoe-root. 



I have already obferved, that moor-land is 

 of the fam.e kind as heath : and I would recom- 



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