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 great care and attention, in fields of acres, each year, by taking alternate  of equal area in the same field;  the blossoms from some of the divisions, and leaving others to ripen  seed; attending in the Autumn, when  Potatoes were taking up, and  the produce with great care, he  found the quantity increase 10 or 15. where the blossoms were taken besides there being few small Potatoes in the field. He also found the quantity much improved in consequence of crop ripening sooner than usual, and therefore not affected by the frosts, which  set in so early that the growth of the Potatoe is completely checked before it  at maturity: he has continued the  for the last five or six years, on fields  four to nine acres, and considers  experiment worth prosecuting to any extent: the expence about 3s. per acre, done by children from ten to twelve  of age.

After paring or scraping let them lie in water an hour, and then boil them with a bit of saltpetre, which is said to take the sweetness quite away.