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the use and value of this most excellent root. Now 
is the time to prepare for your fall and winter feed- 
ing ; no farmer ever raised too many potatoes, and 
prob.ibly too many never will be raised. 
The farmers of our country have too much good 
sense and judgment, to render it necessary for me to 
say, that great care should be taken to select the best 
of every crop for seed, and that the several kinds be 
kept pure and unmixed. The good, resulting from 
this, must be too evident to have escaped the notice 
of the most ordinary farmer. 
The carrot is the only root that can vie with the 
potatoe, both in the profits of its culture, and utility 
for feeding; but this requires that nice mode of hus- 
bandry, which renders it too diflicult and expensive 
to be extensively raised, so long as the price of la- 
bour is so dear in our country. A few hundred bush- 
els may be easily raised by farmers generally, in the 
kitchen-garden, with very little extra expense, under 
a proper management ; but as the season for the cul- 
ture is past, 1 shall defer my remarks upon this root, 
together with the mangel wurtzel, and other roots, 
until I come to treat on gardening generally ; I shall 
then give the subject a particular discussion, both as 
to the best practical modes of culture, and the best 
practical calculations upon their value, and use in 
feeding. 
Let me close this number with one general exhor- 
tation. Plant as much of your fallow grounds with 
potatoes as possible ; break up, after mowing, such 
sward as you design for tillage the next season, or 
such as you would wish to sow with winter-wheat, 
and plant it with the true English white potatoes; 
you will find your advantage in it. One hoeing will 
answer upon the sward ground ; but two hoeings are 
best for both sward and fallow grounds. 
