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Sets (487). Varieties resembling the wild potatoe (488). 

 Planting in sand or peat (489). Dryness, warmth, and light 

 (490). Propagation of the young stalks (491, 492). Requisites 

 for healthy propagation (493, 494). Diminished starch (495). 

 Starch cells (49ti). Remedies which have been proposed (497). 

 Drying (498). Cold and dryness (499). Review (500). 

 PAGE 118. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



ON FAMINES. 



Equalization of food (501). Deficient crops (502). Enumeration 

 of famines (503). Inefficient legislation as to public health 

 (504). Proposed remedy (505). Duties of a council of health 

 (506 508). Precautionary measures (509). Absolute duties of 

 the executive (511 512). Table of esculents attacked by vastator 

 and other aphides (513). Other nutritive matter (514 517). 

 Excise laws (518) ; the year 1845 (519) ; 1846 (520). Conclud- 

 ing remraks (521 522). PAGE 128. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 

 ON THE APPLICATION OF DISEASED POTATOES. 



Diseased potatoes as food (523). Thompson's lectures : damaged 

 wheat (524) ; effects of (525) ; difficulty of experimenting on 

 animals (526). Effects of mouldy food (527). Probable effects 

 of diseased potatoes on man (528 529) ; on animals (530 531) ; 

 for fattening bullocks, feeding milch cows (532). Used by bakers 

 (533). Vitiated food generally (534 535). Starch (536539). 

 PAGE 134. 



CHAPTER XXV 

 THE BENEFITS AND THE DANGERS OF THE POTATOE. 



Value of the potatoe (540). Culture (541). Nutritive power (542, 

 543). Exclusive potatoe culture, moral effects (544) ; physical 

 effects, the Irish (546, 547), Dangers of (548). PAGE 138. 



