POTATOES. 34y 



SECT. XX, — MANGEL WURZEL. 



Sir Mordaunt Martin has cultivated It from Irs 

 first introdu6tion ; and generally with great success. Has 

 usually four or five acres. He has drilled it for the purpose 

 of better cleaning; drills it with Cooke's wheat cups, so 

 reduced by putty, as to sow half a peck an acre. But in- 

 tends it, in future, broad-cast, as the seeds are apt to be 

 buried. Sows about the middle of May, to the 20th, be- 

 ing apt to run to seed if earlier. He is persuaded that aa 

 acre will carry more cow stock than an acre of turnips. 

 It will keep hogs perfe6lly well, but better for large than 

 young ones, "3 apt to scour : if he wanted them for hogs 

 only, , he would still have them, as very beneficial for that 

 stock. He usually sows it after barley. They keep la 

 the same way as potatoes : his method is to open a furrow 

 and fill it, and then turn two furrows over the roots, ob- 

 serving that the ridge thus formed, is left sharp to shoot 

 water off. He has a very In'gh opinion of them, and found 

 that they will fatten a beast faster than any root lie has 

 tried: on this gravelly loam, they yield a much better crop 

 than either carrots or parsnips. 



1802. He has this year a flourishing crop. 1 was un- 

 fortunate in his absence when 1 called at Burnham. 



SECT. XXI. — POTATOES. 



The quantity of potatoes in the south of Norfolk, is 

 very inconsiderable ; and in Fleg, I saw but a thin scat- 

 tering of very small pieces. 



Mr. 



