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cut for planting. This will be a faving to the four 

 counties, in proportion to the nunnber of acres 

 planted in the method recommended. 



2dly, Various forts of Potatoes are produced from 

 the feeds of the fame apple, and by this means new 

 kinds would be introduced, fome of which might 

 be more valuable than any yet raifed. — The farmer 

 will have it in his power, at his option, to pre- 

 ferve for his own ufe the beft kinds, or thofe bell 

 adapted to his foil, and to difpofe of the reft either 

 by fale, or as food for his cattle. 



^dly. Potatoes will, after a few years, unavoidably 

 degenerate, and decreafe in produce ^ while thofe 

 newly raifed from the feed will produce, at leaft, 

 one third more than thofe which have been ufually 

 propagated in the county, or which can be pro- 

 cured from other counties, unlefs the farmer could 

 certainly know that the Potatoes he purchafes were 

 newly raifed from feed alfo. 



For thefe reafons, this method appears likely to 

 prove of great publick utility, and to defer ve a pre- 

 mium for encouraging it, efpecially as the procefs 

 is neither dii&cult nor expenfive.-— The method 

 is as follows: 



