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Medium course in clay soils ; Ist year, oats with 
clover; 2d, clover ; 3d, wheat ; 4th, beans dunged; 
5th, wheat ; 6th, the yellow vetchling. 
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SECTION IX. 
Of the Plants recommended for a course 
of Crops, in the preceding section, and 
their culture. , 
’ "Turse are wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, oats, 
buck wheat, peas, beans, turnips, potatoes, cabbages, 
clover and chicory: but we shall take them in the 
order in which they stand in the proposed rotation 
of crops; and, 
I. Of the potatoe. 
~ ‘This plant is a native of America, and like other 
valuable things, has had violent enemies and zealous 
friends. When first introduced into France, it was 
subjected to the imperfect methods of analysis of 
that day, and being supposed to yield some delete- 
rious matter, was even proscribed by the govern- 
ment. But time, which rarely fails to do justice to 
the injured, has re-established it there, and with the 
increased reputation of being the “ manna of the 
poor;”’(1) of standing as an article of food, next to 
bread,(2) and far before cabbages, carrots or tur- 
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(1) Dictionaire de L’Industrie. Art. Pommecle terre. 
(2) Experiments of Vaugelin and Percy, 80 parts out of 100 of bread are nutritive, 
of the potatoe 25, or nearly one fourth. 
