ii Preface. 



to collect facts, opinions and remedies, on the alarming and 

 fatal disease that now threatens destruction to this UNIVERSAL 

 FOOD FOR MAN, and to furnish the conclusion which emi- 

 nent practical men have arrived at, both in this country and 

 Europe, on the causes of the disease, and the appropriate 

 remedy for it. It is believed that a sure remedy has been 

 discovered, and the subsequent pages of this book will detail 

 such facts as will encourage farmers to proceed with the cul- 

 tivation of the potatoe crop in all confidence. 



Independent of the particular object for which this small 

 treatise is especially designed, to wit : the cure of the Po- 

 tatoe Plague, farmers will find much valuable information on 

 the general cultivation of this crop, which will be valuable 

 for reference long after the plague, (may its reign be short ! ) 

 has disappeared. 



