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ARTICLE XXYV.. 
| A Method of Potatoe Management for prevent- 
ing the Curl. 
{In a Letter to the Secretary. } 
SIR, Bodmin, Nov. 7, 1794. 
N reply to your favour of the sth inftant, my 
mode of potatoe tillage is as follows:—If dry 
weather in March, I begin to till my early crops, 
known here by the name of the red-nofe kidney. 
The faireft and beft-fhaped potatoes are carefully 
picked out from the others, and cut in {mall pieces 
about the fize of half a walnut; fome contain one 
eye, others two. The ground being in good tilth 
by often ploughing, I drefs according tothe ftrength 
of my grounds, from 20 to 60 loads per acre, of a 
compoft of fcrapings of the road, head-ridges, and 
farm-yard dung; when the plants are about four or 
fix inches high, they are hand-hoed; and if any 
curled ones appear, they are carefully rooted out, 
together with the fets that bare them; when about 
a foot high, they are again. weeded, and the curled 
plants, if any remain, are carefully rooted out. It 
is alfo neceflary to look them over juft as they are 
coming into bloffom, and root them out if any 
curled appear. . 
i have for twelve years paft tilled from fix to ten 
acres for the market yearly. ‘Thofe intended as 
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