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** thofe he defigned for keeping grow till they were 

 « fully ripe/' 



Hence he concludes, the only fure way to pre- 

 vent the curl is, to let potatoes, intended for feed, 

 (land till they are fully ripe, and to keep them dry 

 all the winter. 



LETTER VIII. 



THIS writer fet a quantity of the red potatoes, 

 without having a curled one amongfl them. His 

 method is, when the fets are cut, to pick out fuch 

 as are reddeft in the infide. On digging them up 

 at Michaelmas, he mixes none of the curled feed 

 iamong the others. The curled are eafily diftin- 

 guifhable, by their llalks withering two months 

 before the reft of the crop. 



The caufe of the curled difeafe he attributes to 

 potatoes being of late years produced from feed 

 inftead of rools, as formerly. Such will not ftand 

 good more than two or three years, u^q what me- 

 thod you pleafe. 



Laft fpring, he fet the old red and white Ruffets, 

 and had not a curled potatoe among them. 



On 



