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od of doitig things, that it is With the gieateft 
they can be prevailed on to make improve- 
hough it would certainly tend to their own 
and the general good; and rendered quite certain by 
experiments already tried. It ig in confequence of 
converfation with mien of this defcription, that I am 
induced to trouble youwith this letter, men who would 
not be convinced to the contrary, but that the de- 
caying potatoe afforded fo much more nourifhnient 
to the green which fprung from it, than could pof- 
fibly be afforded from a piece of rind, as would ren- 
der the crop much more abundant; and affected to 
difbelieve what was inferted in the Salifbury Journal 
by your Society, becaufe the perfons’ names, who 
made. the experiments, were not inferted.. However, 
having been in the habit of planting potatoes for 
thefe 15 or 16 years paft, I have been induced to 
make the following experiments: 
In the year, 1790, I planted a large fquare of po- 
tatoes, one-third of which was with the rind, one- 
third with whole potatoes, and the other part with 
pieces, cut in the ufual.way; and [affure you, when. 
the feafon came for digging, there was not the. leaft 
vifible difference in the produce. 
The following year, I planted in the fame row or 
drill, one whole potatoe, one piece, and one piece 
of rind, in which there was an eye, alternately; and 
when the feafon came for digging, I was very care- 
ful in my obfervation, but unable to perceive any 
difference in the crop. In 
