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Report of the committee of the board of agriculture, appointed to extract information from the county reports, and other authorities, concerning the culture and use of potatoes
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CHAP. XI.

OF THE PRODUCE.

N Cheſhire, in the lazy-bed method, 300 buſhels per acre(a).

In Cornwall, by two crops on the ſame land, they produce 800

buſhels per acre(4). In Cornwall, by paring and burning, 520 buſhels per acre(c).

In Cumberland, a fair average crop, 240 bufhels; the land a moſt ex- cellent turnip ſoil 7d).

In Durham, 250 bufhels; drilled at two feet ſix inches(e).

At Aveley, in Eſfex, 200 bufhels an acre; Promiſcuous(†).

In the Ifle of Wight, produce, in drills at one foot, 255 buſhels an acre(g).

n. Thcs hine, the medium is 250 bufhels of 90 pounds, before they are cleaned(b)..

In Nottinghamfhire, Mr. Bower, 34 5 bufhels per acre(¹).

In Somerfetfhire, 330 buſhels, each 80 pounds().

In ditto, 160 ſacks, 240 pounds each per acre; average price five fhil- lings per ſack /1).

Near Battel, in Suſfex, 375§ buſhels. Land manured every ſecond

ear(m).

1 In Gamoreland, 300 bufhels per acre(n).

In Wiltfhire, from 50O to 160 ſacks, each 00 pounds(°).

From ſeven to 8000 tons of potatoes of the Kidney kind are annually exported from the banks of the Ouſe, in Yorkifhire, to the London market(p)ʒ. 4.

An ordinary crop of yams, in Scotland, is twelve tons per acre; but fixteen tons are not an uncommon one(2).

Mr. Corbett, in Merionethfhire, raifes immenſe crops of potatoes, to the value of 20l. per acre(r).

ſa]) Cheſter, p. 20.(2) Cornwall, p. 38.(c) Ibid. p. 38.

() Cumberland, p. 27.() Durham, p. 70.(†) Eſſex, Vancouver- (C) Hants, Sr.(2) Lancaſter, p. 31.(7) Nottingham hire, p. 13. (4) Samerſetſhire, p. 92.(⁷) Ibid. p. 139.(7) Suffex, p. 29. (7) Weſtmoreland, p. 20.(°) Wiltſhire, p. 52.(½) W. Riding, p. 144.

(2) Flintfhire, p. 14.(r) Merionethfhire, p. 13.

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