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Mr. Dalton, of Vorkfhire, had a field part cabbages, drawn; part pota- toes, both equally manured: and the next year the whole ſown with barley, Which proved better by a quarter per acre after the potatoes than after the cabbages. One of his tenants planted an acre of potatoes in the middle of a field fallowed for turnips, all dunged, and the turnips fed by fheep. The whole was ſown with oats; which crop was better after the potatoes by nine buſhels an acre(r).. 3

Mr. Scroope, of Yorkfhire, has always good wheat after them( 5).

At Goſworth, in Northumberland, better wheat and rye than com- mon(t). 1. 1*

Nſ Morpeth, great crops of barley after them(a.—

Mr. Dann confiders potatoes as an exhaufting crop; that they exhauſt the ground more than any corn crop: but if cattle are fed with the pro-

duce, he conceives, with a moderate quantity of itter, they would produce dung ſuſſicient to manure nearly thrice the quantity of land the potatoes grow on; that is, on the ſuppoſition of his own average produce, 350 bufhels.

CULTURE COMPARED WITH THAT OF TURNIPsS.

That of turnips more profitable(%)...

Compared with turnips and cabbages, potatoes may be confidered thus: They are more nutritious; and, in the opinion of thoſe who have ufed them, fatten cattle much quicker than either turnips or cabbages; being ſecured from froſt, are a more certain article of fattening than plants which are liable to periſh by alternate froſt and thaw. If turnips and cabbages outweather the ſeverities of winter, they occupy the ſoil in the ſpring when it is wanted to be prepared for the ſucceeding crop; while potatoes, if properly laid up, are ready without inconveniency till the graſs has a requiſite bite. Apply- ing each plant to the proper ſoil, cabbages are beſt for ftrong tenacious land;

turnips for light fhallow unproductive ſoils; and potatoes for rich, deep, ſound, ſandy loams(2).

(r) Young's North Tour, vol. 2. p. 340. (t) Ibid. vol. 3. p. 13z.(u) Ibid. p. 21. (2) Marſhal, Vork, vol. 2. p. 66.

0) Ibid. vol. 2. p. 370.— (*) Annals, vol. z1. p. 24.—