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the method of fatting with potatoes being 

 lirniiar to that of fatting with turneps. 



The quantity of potatoes grown upon ati 

 acre under the management above-defcribed j 

 and their prdfitableneft as an article of food 

 for cattle j I have not been fortunate enough 

 to r fecit a in with fufBcient accuracy. 



VIII. THE EFFECT OF POTATOES ON LAND. 



Various are the opinions of profefiional meri 

 on this fubject. One aflerts that they are 

 great impo-verifiers of the foil ; that they are 

 hurtful to the cent, and ruinous to the JTV?/.;., 

 which fucceeds them. Another is clearly of 

 opinion that they are friendly to corn, and not 

 enemies to grafs. 



The difpute may, perhaps, be fettled fatif- 

 factorily in this manner. 



The potatoe contains, indisputably, a great 

 quantity of nourifhment ; and is therefore, 

 perhaps, as indifputably, a great exhaurter of 

 the foil. 



Bjt the quantity of vegetable no'urifhment 

 carried off in the potatoe crop is not the only 

 canfe of exhaiuUon : it is notorious to com- 

 mon obfervation, that this crop leaves the 

 foil in a fmguhrty friable fertile ftate -, caufing 



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