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recommending wbole potatoes for feed, my trials 

 have all led to a contrary cpnclufion ; and I much 

 wifh, that your regular correfpgndents would give 

 their opinion on this fubjcd ; from fuch aggregate of 

 information, fomc decided opinion might be formed^ 



Change your feed every two years, and go as far 

 from home as you can for a fupply. In the vicinity 

 of Briftol, perhaps the ScoUh feed, imported from 

 Dumfries, is the beft. 



Do not cover your fets in planting with more 

 than three inches depth of earth, and be particularly 

 attentive to the rooks, which by their fagacity of 

 fmell will find them out, and would make great de- 

 predation. After the plants have been up about 3 

 weeks, fet your hoers to work; but by no means let 

 the hoe be ufed after the plants begin to throw out 

 their ftrings, and form their bulbs : fhould any feat- 

 hered weeds arife, remove them by hand-work. 



If labourers can be got, prefer digging to ploughing 

 upi and when you dig, compel your men to thruft 

 their (pade under the potatoes, and not dig in per- 

 pendicularly; by this means they avoid cutting the 

 roots. Never dig up in wet weather; and as felt 

 ^s dvg, fecurc them in the following manner: make 



a trench 



