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Art. XXX. 



On the Culture and Value of Potatoes^ as com- 

 municated to the Society by the Author, in a copy of 

 a letter to the Right Hon. Lord Sheffield. 



[By Mr. Bartley.] 



MY LORD, Brijlol, 1795. 



T CANNOT help feeling particular pleafure in 

 ■*• obferving the culture of the potatoe to be en- 

 couraged in fo fpirited a manner by the Board of 

 Agriculture; perfuaded as I am, that there is not an 

 article in the known circle of hufbandry more de- 

 ferving the foflering care of an inflitution which may 

 well be filled the mod noble. 



The fociety having condefcended to invite a ge- 

 neral correfpondence, I am induced to addrefs your 

 Lordihip as to one of its mofl: difcerning members, 

 if haply any obfervation of mine may in a flight de- 

 gree be thought pertinent to the fubje£l. 



I have had many years experience in the culture 

 of this root, and perhaps was the firfl: in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Briftol who purfued it on an exten- 

 live fcale. 



The largefl: crop/1 ever faw was of my own railing, 

 (though I have heard of a greater produce) and the 

 quality was equal to any thing I have fcen ; the 



farinaceous 



