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being in this refpefb equal to turnips ; and, in ge- 

 neral, pay the owner of the land much better. 



Some perfons have objedled to the general culti- 

 vation of potatoes, from the apprehenfion of want- 

 ing a market; but while they are retailed out 

 at two fhiliings and fix-pence, or even at two (hil- 

 lings a bufhel, (and it is very rarely that we can 

 purchafe them lower) this apprehenfion will be' 

 groundlefs. 



Add to this, that potatoes may be very profit- 

 ably ufed as food for cattle and hogs. No food 

 is better for rearing and fattening the latter. 

 Cows and oxen will alfo eat them freely, and 

 they are more eafily preferved from froft than tur- 

 nips: Hence they would prove an excellent fuc- 

 cedaneum at the feafon when fpring food is mod 

 wanted. 



If potatoes were introduced regularly in the 

 farmer's courfe of crops, on light good foils, great 

 advantages would enfue. He need not be at the 

 trouble and expence of having them dug up clein. 

 Let him only take up the bed part, and then turn 

 his fwinc in : they will gather and fatten on the 

 reft, and repay their value in the manure they leave 

 behind them. 



Potatoes 



