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Newtoxvtiy Bucks County, March 20thy 1820. 



Sir, 



In pursuance of a resolution passed at a stated 

 meetinsj of the Bucks County Agricultural Society, held 

 the 12th February last, I forward you the enclosed com- 

 munications to be published in such manner as the Phila- 

 delphia Society for promoting Agriculture may deeir. 

 proper. 



I am, very respectfully, 



Th. G. Kennedy, 

 Sec. oj the JIgric. Soc, of 

 Bucks County. 



Roberts FaiiXy 

 Sec. Philad, Agric. Soc, 



*< And if he be not able to bring" a lamb, then he shall brhie: for his 

 trespass which he hath committed, two turtle doves or two young 

 pidgeons." — Leviticus ^'ch. 5, v. 7. 



On raising Potatoes, By John Linton. 



Sir, 



Not being able to bring a bull or a heifer from my 

 herd, as an oiFering to the Society, I have brought a 

 potato. The potato was raised in one of the beds of 

 earth which were hauled from a ditch, which I caused t« 

 be cut in the year 1808, through a piece of bottom mea- 

 dow ground, for the purpose of carrying the water from 

 the spring, and preventing the overflowing of the milk- 



