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Article V. 



Prefatory Remarks '^ Hints refpe5ting Potatoes^ 

 a Machine for bruijing Furze ^ and a Plan for 

 improving the Wool of this Country. 



[By Dr. J. Anderson, to the Secretary.] 

 Sir, 



SOME time ago I did myfelf the honour to write 

 to you, acknowledging the receipt of the letter 

 and parcel you were fo kind to fend to me, and 

 giving fome anfwer to Mr. Anstie's queries re- 

 ipeding Wool, which 1 hope you received. 



Along with this you will receive fome obferva- 

 tions on the management of the dairy, particularly 

 with regard to the making of butter, which are the 

 refult of experience \ and I fhall be happy if the 

 members of your fociety will accept of this as a 

 teftimony of my gratitude, and a proof of my de- 

 fire to forward, as far as in me lies, the beneficent 

 views of your inftitution, 



I have a few more experiments on potatoes, that 

 are nearly ready for being communicated; among 

 other difcoveries, the refult of thefe experiments is 

 a method of rearing potatoes fo as to have them at 



any 



