No. XVI.

To ibe Preſiaent of the Board.

HoNOURABLE SIR,

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I WlSH to inform you, that there is a huſbandman at Asfield, in this Dale(a), who diſcovers a genius for Agriculture. Laſt year he raiſed two crops of potatoes fpom the fame ſeed; the laſt crop was as big as a crab- apple. The two crops were raiſed in ſeventeen weeks, of an exceeding good quality, and anfſwer well either for ſeed or eating. He has ſold great quantities of potatoes for ſeed near one hundred miles round this pPlace. If a ſecond crop can be raiſed in 10 cold and barren a part, I think a Warmer climate would produce much morc,

May 7, 1795. JOHN HILL.

No. XVII.

Mill fer Raſping Potatoes; and:νe Methoa f obtaining therefrom Stareh or Flaue By Mr. BEAuUME.

Tranſated from the Mamoirs of the Royal Acaaemy of Sciences of Paris, March 4, 1786.

OF all the machines which have been invented for comminuting potatoes with the leaſt inconvenience, and collecting flour therefrom, it has been found that the common raſp held in one hand, while with the other the Potatoes were rubbed thereon, was the moſt ſimple, and contributed moſt to enable the potatoe to yield its flour, and in the greateſt quantity; but fuch an implement, exeelſent as it may be, ſo far omy affords a tedious and

inconvenient method, as the roots can only be raſped one after another,

ſa/ John Milner, Asfield, in Ravenstendale, Weſtmoreland. Z 2