STATISTICAL SURVEY 



their tafle and firmnefs, from fweating too much in 

 large heaps, when prematurely raifed; many perfons 

 attribute the diforder called curl to this caufe. 



^be method of keeping tkem.-^-ln heaps in the fields, 

 fblidly covered with earth, fufficient to keep out rain 

 and froft; from thefe heaps they are taken into the 

 houfe in fpring, and, by turning, and picking the buds 

 as they appear, may be kept (except the early kinds) 

 good and fit for ufe, until new potatoes are ready ; the 

 apple potatoe, with proper care, I believe, might be 

 kept more than a year. 



Potatoes are moft advantageoufly applied to the fol- 

 lowing purpofes; firft, to making of flour and flarch, 

 the procefs in both cafes the fame; reducing them raw 

 to a pafle, which, being diluted in water, affords a 

 quantity of either the one or the other, equal at leaft 

 to a feventh part of the grofs weight of potatoes. 

 Excellent barm or yeaft is made by boiling, peeling, 

 and bruifing them, and then adding a fufficient quan- 

 tity of barm to fet them in a ftate of fermentation, aher 

 which nothing more is required than to add more po- 

 tatoes as they are wanted ; this, mixed with flour, 

 makes as light bread as that produced from malt. 



On propagating Potatoes from Cuttings of the Stalks. 

 In the year 1801 fome ftalks of potatoes of a particular 

 kind were cut off by a worm: thefe I fet down; they 

 produced potatoes at every joint, but more refembling 

 aerial potatoes than thofe, which grow under ground : 



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