I 41]

In the Midland Counties, taken up with forks, at one penny to two- pence per buſhel(£.

Mr. Dann digs them up by hand in October or November, at from one penny to two pence per buſhel, as the crop may be, more or leſs; at which price a man and his wife, on the average, earn three fhillings and ſixpence per day. He believes they may be ploughed up cheaper than they can be dug; but prefers the latter 70).

CHAP. IX. OF SECURING THE CROP.

Authorities from the Reports.

N Suſſex, they build a houſe ten or twelve feet high, the walls fix feet thick, of clay and ſtraw, over a hole four or five feet deep, in which they ſtore their crop(a)..

In Lancaſhire, they ſecure them in heaps, in the fhape of the roof of a houſe, covered cloſely with ſtraw ſix inches thick, and then covered with mould, cloſely compacted with the ſpade(b).

In Wiltſhire, they are ſecured in long narrow ridges of earth, with an intermediate covering of dry ſtraw; and this is found to preſerve them, if they are perfectly dry when pitted, during the ſevereſt froſts(c).

In the North Riding, they are gathered into heaps, laid upon the ſurface of the ground, and carefulſy covered with ſtraw. A deep trench is dug

7½) Marſhal Mid Counties, vol. 1. p. 290. 3 1) MsS. Papers of the Board. (a¹* Suſſex, p. 29. 16) Lancaſter, p. 33.(c-/ Wilts, p. 52.