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Article II. 



On the Culture of Potatoes by the eajiejl and 

 mojl ceconomical Means, 



[By Mr. Joseph Wimpey, to the Secretary.] 



SIR, 



SINCE the potatoe has been in univerfal demand 

 for the food of cattle, as well as of families, 

 their culture hath become an objed of general at- 

 tention and regard. Men of every clafs, from the 

 princely owner of a palace to the meanefl cottager, 

 have exerted their (kill in attempting to improve 

 it both in quantity of produce and in goodnefs. 

 As to quantity, fome have fuccceded beyond all 

 expedation. 



In examining fome of thofe accounts, the writer 

 hath been much furprized to Hnd their culture hath 

 been attended with fuch enormous expences, even 

 as far, if he remembers right, as 14I. or 15I. per 

 acre. This put him upon confidering if a lefs 

 operofe and more ceconomical method might not 

 be pra6licable, by which, though the quantity of 

 produce might be confiderably inferior, yet the nett 

 profit might be fuperior, and that in no fmafl de- 

 gree, all things confidered. 



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