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On the Hme-ftone land about Denbigh, in North 

 Wales, they haVe no curled potatoes. If this b& 

 owing to the nature of that larid, perhaps linac 

 might prevent the difeafe. 



LETTER IX. 



THIS writer fays, that all forts of grain wear 

 out and turn wild, if fown too long on the fame 

 land; the fame will hold good in all forts of pulfe, 

 peafe, beans, and (as he conceives) potatoes. It 

 generally happens, that thofe who have mod curled 

 potatoes plant very fmall fcts» 



Eleven years ago he bought a parcel of frefli fets, 

 of the golden dun kind, and has ufed them without 

 change to the prefent year, without any being curled. 

 This he principally attributes to his having always 

 planted good large fets. 



About four years fince, he thought of changing 

 his fets, as his potatoes were too fmooth, too 

 round, and much diminifhed in fize. But the 

 curl at that time beginning to be very alarming, 

 he Continued his fets till, part of his crop miffing 

 laft year, he was obliged to buy new fets this fpring, 

 which, being fmall, were curled like other people's. 



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