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ce dant, they might be converted to the purpoſe of fattening * ſtock; a matter which alſo required the particular attention of the Board, from the high price of meat at preſent, and the little proſpect there is ofa fall: and that he flattered him- ſelf the Board had ſo far eſtabliſhed its character in the pu blic « eſtimation, that it might ſafely rely on a very general ſup- « port in carrying any meaſure into full effect, of ſuch eſſen- tial conſequence to the public intereſt. On the whole, he

¹begged leave to ſubmit the following Reſolutions to the Board:

RESOLVED, That an increaſed cultivation of that valuable root, the Potatoe, appears to the Board, to be one of the moſt im- *portant objects, that can poſſibly be recommended to the

«attention of Britiſh farmers.

„ That much information reſpecting the cultivation and e uſe of that valuable root, having been communicated to the Board, a Committee be appointed to draw up a Report upon «the fubject; and that the ſame, when approved of by the «c Board, fhall be printed and circulated for the public uſe.