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Article XL. On the Culture of Potatoes* 



(By Mr. JosEJ'h Webb,] 

 Gentlemen, 



AS the diffufion of ufeful information amongft 

 mankind in agriculture, is evidently the end 

 and defign in the inftitution of your laudable So-' 

 ciety at Bath, 1 beg leave, through your permiifion, 

 •to lay before the publick, in your next publication, 

 the method I have made ufe of for near twelve 

 years in the feIe(R:ing proper potatoes for feed; 

 during which time I have never loft a crop, or any 

 part thereof worth mentioning, by what is called 

 the curled or blighted potatoe. 



Several of your corrcfpondents feem to think, 

 that the fault is in the nature of the foil in which 

 they are planted ; but from this, I believe, I may 

 with the greateft confidence diflent, at leaft it has 

 not been fo in my practice, and, I believe, I have 

 had as great a (hare thereof as moft men; for du- 

 ring the late war, I ufualiy planted between twenty 

 and thiny acres, and fometimes many more in 

 a year. 



About eighteen years ago, I took a large garden 

 near Portfraouth ; at that time potatoes were not 



much 



