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In Mid Lothian, from eighteen inches to four feet diſtance, and from nine to twelve inches, plant to plant.(p)—

In Weſt Lothian, after two or three ploughings, plant by the plough every ſecond furrow, or in drills, from twenty to thirty inches apart, and ten or twelve inches from plant to plant.(·)

In Selkirkſhire, they are planted in drills, from two to three feet diſtance, eight inches from plant to plant; ſometimes in every third or fourth furrow, in the courſe of ploughing. Drilling is preferable.(r)

In Berwickfhire, Surinam in rows, three feet diſtance.(s)

Other Autborities.

Mr. Bucke, of Suffolk, plonghed the land which was under potatoes the preceeding year, deeply covering a thin coat of ſhort dung; dropt the ſets in every ſecond furrow, from twelve to fifteen inches diſtant. Produce 628 bufhels peèr acre.(t)

At Ryehope, near Sunderland, in rows fifteen inches aſunder, nine inches from plant to plant. Producc 169 bufhels.(v)

Mr. Macro, in Suffolk, found that a ſingle row, on three feet ridges, yielded more than a double row on the ſame ſized ridges.(u)

Mr. Mayo, of Battel, opens furrows three feet aſunder, in which the dung, fixty loads of ſixteen buſhels and ſets, covers with hand-hoes. Cluſter crop 450 buſhels: tried four feet, but three better.(20)

Mr. Dan, of Kent, plants with the plough in every other furrow; the rows twenty inches, the ſets ten, and the horſes three at length, wwalking en the land.(*)

Mr. VYoung having manured the furface of the fields, planted every ſecond furrow in turning in the dung, laying the ſets cloſe under the unſtirred land, to be out of the way of the horſes feet(y). Crops better than rows at three feet.

In Ayrfhire, drills at four fect yield forty bolls per Scotch acre.()

In Dumbartonſhire, in rows at three feet dunged; the next year in the intervals without more dung. Crops 121. an acre.(a

In Fifeſhire, drills at eighteen inches dibbled, plants at one foot. Produce ſeventy bolls, at twenty-two ſtone, Amſterdam.(⁶)

Mr. Scroope, in Yorkfhire, in furrows, come up at two feet, one foot in the rows, a handful of dung to each, or five loads per acre; average crop

216 buſbels.(c)

(½) Mid Lothian, p. 68.(½) Ibid. p. 26.(r) Selkirkfhire, 30.(5) Ibid. 131. (t) Annals, vol: 5. p. 252. ſ/ Ib. vol.§. p. 262. u) Ib. vol. 7. p. 505.

(w Ibid. vol. 11. p. 249. ſæ/ Vol. 20. p. 231. 6) Society Tranf. vol. 3. p. 79, 39. (2. Wight, vol. 3. p. 190.(a) Ib. p. 296.(6) Ib. vol. 1. p. 25.

ſc) Noung's North Tour, vol. 2. p. 3 70.