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On the Long Red Potato. By Isaac C Jonea. 



Philadelphia^ 1st mo, (Jan,) I9th, 1819. 

 Esteemed Friend, 



I HEREWITH send samples of some potatoes denomi- 

 nated the long red, which grew on my farm the last sea- 

 son. Having been in the practice of cultivating them for 

 the last three years, I have uniformly found them re- 

 markably productive, particularly so the last season, 

 when I obtained at the rate of at least 400 bushels to the 

 acre, planted in furrows about two feet there to four 

 inches apart, and the usual distance in the furrows, say 

 ten inches. Although these potatoes in the opinion of 

 some are very good for the table, yet I do not think them 

 equal to the Foxites, Scotch grey's, and some others ; 

 notwithstanding, I believe them equally valuable for 

 stock, and on account of their prodigious yield, think 

 them well worth the attention of agriculturalists gene- 

 rally. Some of the samples sent when first taken from 

 the ground last fall, weighed from two pounds to two 

 pounds nine ounces. 



With sentiments of sincere respect, 



Thy friend, 



Isaac C. Jones. 



Roberts Faux, 

 Sec* Philad. Agric, Soc, 



