Jee Kofert T. 2o.

according to the weather.(c)

ne or two eyes.(2)

E HAL. III.

OF THE SETS.

Auathorities from ihe Reports-

T IHford, in Effex, they plant very fmall potatoes, or ſlices of larger ones; having onc, two, or three eyes in each.(a)

Experiments have been made in Lancafhire to aſcertain the beſt mode of cutting the ſets. Awholèé potatde does not always ſucceed; but a large cutting has been found better than a fmall one. Beſt to cut off the ſprout, or noſe- end, and alſo the umbilical or tail-end of the potatoe, rejecting both, and taking the middle entire for the ſet. The worſt method is cutting the potatoe down the middle from noſe to tall: a common practice.(⁵)

In Lancafhire, the moſt approved method for early crops is, they cut the ſets and put them on a room-floor, where a ſtrong current of air can be

introduced at pleaſure, two lays in depth, and covered two inches thick, with chaff, or ſaw-duſt. If deſired to be. very early, they remain thus from

November till March; much attention being paid to give or exclude air,

In Northumberland, whole potatoes ſeldom or never uſed, but flices with

In Durham, ſixteen bufhels per acre, the rows from two to three feet, and

one from plant to plant.()

Mr. Bower, of Nottinghamſtire, ſeven ſacks per acre every third furrow, and four inches aſunder.(†)

In Suffex, eighteen bufhels per acre.(2.) In Wiltſhire, four and an half to fix ſacks.(b)

In the North Kiding, fifteen buſhels per acre; in one bout ridges, and ten inches from plant to plant.(.

In the Iſle of Man, from eighteen to twenty buſhels per acre in the lazy-bed metbod. CE)

(a) Effex, by Griggs, p. 14.(2) Lancaſter, p. 29.() Ibid. 32. (d) Northumberland, p. 40.(e) Durham, p. 70.(J) Notts, p. 13- 5(g) Suſſex, p. 29.) Wilts, p. 52.(i) North Riding, P. 43, (4) Iſle of Man, p. 36. D 2