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He allows, that the curl has frequently happened 

 to perfons who have ufed large potatoes for fets ; 

 for, as all roots are not equally affeded, fonne curled 

 ones may be mixed with the reft. 



To prevent the evil, cut your fets from clear 

 and middle-fized potatoes, gathered from places 

 as clear of the curl as pofTible; prefervt them as 

 ufual till fpring. If any are harder, or grafli more 

 in cutting than ufual, caft them afide. He would 

 alfo recommend the raifing a frefh fort from the 

 crab produced on the forts leaft afFeded, which in 

 Lancafnire are the long-duns. 



N. B. Here follow three certificates from per- 

 fons who have raifed their crops from large fets 

 of the long-duns, for many years, without being 

 alFedled with the difeafe. 



LETTER X. 



SET Potatoes with the fprits broke off, and 

 they will (fays the writer of this letter) be curled 

 ones; if fet with the fprits on, they will not be 

 curled. Again, take a potatoe which is fprit, and 

 ^ut a fet off with two fights ^ break one fprit off, 

 and let the other ftay on, and fet it^ the former will 

 be curled, and the latter will not. 



When 



