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At Knutsford, in Cheſhire, old graſs dug, produce 500 buſhels per acre.(⁹

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OF THE VARIOUS PREPARATIONS FOR THE CULTURE OF POTATOES.

L.bn this head it is neceſſary to notice,

1. Old graſs 6. In corners of fields 2. Mountain moor and bog. 7. The ſoil

3. Woodland 8. Manuring

4. Noung plantations 9. Paring and burning

5. With turnips 10. Rotations.

SEC2ZION I. OF OLD GRASS As A PREPARATION FOR POTATOES.

Authorities from tbe County Reports.

IN Lancaſhire, ſaid in the Report to ſtand unrivalled in the culture of

Potatoes, a ſward, or freſh lay, is reckoned moſt deſirable.(a)

Colonel Mordaunt, of Lancaſhire, raiſed the Cluſter Potatoe on a layer; and the crop, when ploughed up, was viewed by intelligent farmers, who agreed that they never ſaw ſo abundant a produce. No dung applied.(b)

Mr. Bower, of Nottinghamtſhire, ploughs a ſwarth with a French plough(c), and plants every third furrow.

Old lay, at Werton, near Frodſham, in Cheſhire, is frequently let to the labouring poor at 2s. the rood, or 161. an acre, Chefhire meaſure; and no kind of manure allowed.(α

Oiber Aut horities.

Mr. Kirby, in Suffolk, gained 400 buſhels an acre, on an old layer without manure.)

ſa/ Lancaſter, p. 28.(6) Lancaſter, p. 30. ſc) Notts, p. 135. (d) Cheſhire, p. 2r. Wright Ms. ſe) Annals, vol. 1. p. 285. ) Young's North Tour, vol. 3. p. 243.

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