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Article XLIII. 



On the Care necejfary in planting Potatoes. 



[By a Gentleman of Briftol.] 

 Sir, 



WITH a defign to promote the views of the 

 Society, I take the liberty of communi- 

 cating to you a thought which fome time fince 

 occurred to me refpecling the cultivation of Po- 

 tatoes. It ftruck me, that to felect the very prime 

 part of a crop might be a probable means of pre- 

 venting that general difeafe known under the 

 name of the Curly and which is a fure prognoftic 

 of a poor, dwindling crop. 



Many fchemes have been propofed as likely to 

 remedy this evil, but hitherto without fuccefs; 

 nor have I obferved that any one has recom- 

 mended this method, which to me, at firft fight, 

 appears fo feafible. 



Intelligent farmers are particular, and even cu- 

 rious, in the choice of their feed-grain. But in 

 refpect to potatoes chofen for planting, they are 

 moftly the rubbifh of the crop. 



Upon 



