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is much trouble and difficulty in feparating the earth 

 (if clammy and ftifF) from the roots. On the whole 

 I know no crop fo certain, and fo producStive and 

 ufeful, as potatoes j they will feed moft, if not all 

 kinds of ftock. 



Thofe farmers who have moft leifure, fhould af- 

 certain for their own government, in their refpec- 

 tive foils and fituation, the comparative degree of 

 nourifhment in a given weight of each root now in 

 \]fe, to feed every kind of farmer's ftock ^ perhaps 

 the leaft perifhable, are at once the moft folid and 

 the moft nouriftiing. Thofe that abound with 

 faccharine juices are certainly fo; and fuch are car- 

 rots and parfnips, which are difficult and uncertain 

 to raife and keep free from weeds, and are only fit 

 for a deep light foil. 



I write in a hurry thefe general ideas, as they 

 occur to mes if they are of any ufe I ihall be glad. 



And am. Sir, 



Your obliged humble fervant, 



Lamnihangley J. FRANKLEN. 



July igthy 1790, 



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