produce his ruin, if he has no other depend- 
ence for manure than from the consumption 
of the produ6lions on his farm. 
Potatoes can only be cultivated to advan- 
tage in situations where manure can be 
produced in large quantities, or readily pur- 
chased, to repair its exhausted condition with 
facility, or upon land newly brolten upon 
from a state of pasture, from warped land in 
the vicinity of the Trent, Donn, or any other 
situations where land can be .so improved, 
or where, from its own uncommon iertiiity, 
(if any such there be) it is incapable of being 
exhausted by any means. 
Mr. Young admits, that wheat exhausts 
soil exceedingly ; he therefore cannot, we 
think, safely recommend potatoes as a proper 
crop for cultivation upon a regular farm, in 
the same course of husbandry with wheat. 
Mr. Young’s recommendation, that cot- 
tagers shall be occupiers of land for the pro- 
du6lion of potatoes, with milk for their fa- 
milies, is a most plausible system in theory ; 
but it is impossible to bring it into general 
