756 = 490 
Vegetables. 
Acreage of The following are the chief potato-growing counties in Englan 
chief potato- vvith their respective acreages in 1877 : — 
growing coun- ^ Acres. 
ties in England > Yorkshire 43,246 
in 1877. Lincolnshire 36,552 
Lancashire 33 , 783 
Cheshire 20,360 
Devonshire 15,002 
Kent 13,576 
. Cambridgeshire 8,874 
Somersetshire 8 , 163 
Staffordshire 7,276 
Acieat'e in In Wales there were in 1877 — 
A cf 6S* 
^^1*^^'- Cardigan 7710 
Carnarvon 5465 
Carmarthen 4533 
Denbigh 4090 
Acreage in Scotland the largest acreages in 1877 in the counties wt 
Scotland. as folloWS : Acres. 
Fife 17,488 
Perth 17,648 
Forfar 15,365 
Haddington 9,847 
Eoss .. .. 9,195 
Lanark 7 , 996 
Inverness 8,091 
Ayr 7,775 
Aberdeen 7 , 644 
Edinburgh 7,063 
Argyle 6,566 
Importation Assuming that an average yield of 6 tons per acre was obtain' 
of French on the acreage of potato land in Great Britain in 1877, vi 
potatoes large. 53^2,471 acres, this would give the large amount of 3,074,8; 
tons of potatoes grown in that year. In addition to this, the 
is the quantity imported, which amounted to 301,187 tons 
1876, of which more than half came from France. 
Eotation of Upon the best soils, such as the " warp " land, and other rii 
farm crops soils in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, potatoes are taken eve 
where potatoes t^jj-j year in rotation, sometimes every second ^year, and n 
are grown, and • a i- • r 
systems of untrequently in succession. An ordinary course is lor potato 
cultivation. to follow clover, seeds, or beans — after wheat. From 20 to < 
tons of farmyard-manure are ploughed in, in the late autum 
or in the winter. The land is ploughed across in the ear 
spring, and the potatoes are planted on the ridge, from Fe 
ruary to April, and 3 or 4 cwts. of guano are applied. Fro 
10 to 14 cwts. of sets are put in per acre, being placed Iro 
10 to 15 inches apart, in rows 27 to 30 inches wide. Sor 
growers prefer to put in small potatoes as seed, others cut lar 
potatoes into several pieces, or merely in halves, which apper 
