ii Preface. 
to collect facts, opinions and remedies, on the alarming and 
fatal disease that now threatens destruction to this UNIVERSAL 
FOOD FOR MAN, and to furnish the conclusion which emi- 
nent practical men have arrived at, both in this country and 
Europe, on the causes of the disease, and the appropriate 
remedy for it. It is believed that a sure remedy has been 
discovered, and the subsequent pages of this book will detail 
such facts as will encourage farmers to proceed with the cul- 
tivation of the potatoe crop in all confidence. 
Independent of the particular object for which this small 
treatise is especially designed, to wit:—the cure of the Po- 
tatoe Plague, farmers will find much valuable information on 
the general cultivation of this crop, which will be valuable 
for reference long after the plague, (may its reign be short ! ) 
has disappeared. 
