The varieties of this tuber, like apples, seem annually extending, and every village has its own approved sorts and names, different soils being found preferable for particular kinds, and local treatment advantageous. We plant both by the dibble[8] and the spade: our chief sorts are pink eyes, prince’s beauty, magpies, and china oranges, for our first crop; blacks, roughs, and reds, for the latter crop; and horses’ legs, for cattle. We have a new sort under trial, with rather an extraordinary name, which I must here call “femora dominarum!” But we find here, as is usual with other vegetable varieties, that after a few years’ cultivation the sorts lose their original characters, or, as the men say, “the land gets sick of them,” and they cease to produce as at first, and new sets are resorted to. We have no vegetable under cultivation more probably remunerative than this, or more certain of being in demand sooner or later; it consequently becomes an article of speculation, but not to such an injurious extent as some others are: it gives a sufficient profit to the farmer and his sub renter. Our land is variously rented for this culture; but perhaps eight pounds per acre are a general standard: the farmer gives it two plowings, finds manure, and pays the tithe; the seed is found, and all the labor in and out is performed by the renter; or the farmer, in lieu of any rent, receives half the crop. The farmer’s expenses may be rated at— £. _s._ _d._ Rent to his landlord 1 10 0 Two plowings 1 6 0 Twelve loads of manure 1 16 0 Tithe 0 10 0 Rates 0 3 0 ─────────────────────────────────────────────── £5 5 0 leaving him a clear profit of 2_l._ 15_s._ per acre. The sub renter’s expenditure and profit will be— £. _s._ _d._ Rent 8 0 0 Labor in and out 3 0 6 ─────────────────────────────────────────────── £12 12 6 £. _s._ _d._ Produce 50 sacks, at 6_s._ 6_d._ 16 5 0 Trash, or small pigs 1 0 0 ─────────────────────────────────────────────── £17 5 0