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What are these? Make your government do their work ;

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and wealth of the Church of Rowe. Then they are your
friends, your fast friends; but then they are your roas-
ters. Will you take them as such ? Will you, the Eng-
lish people, submit to be their slaves)

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scorn of England

Signed, by order of the Committee,
RICHARD NUGENT,
Honorary Secretary
27, 1816.

13, Cockspur-street, Oct

HOW TO SAVE THE POTATO

TO THE PEASANTRY OF IRELAND

In November last, and subsequently, I laid before the
government, and other leading authorities of the country,
the fact that the disease of the potato could be checked,
and overcome, by planting the seed in Autumn in place of
spring. And had it been the Almighty will that this
were then promulgated and believed, and that the planting
took place at that period, perhaps famine would not have
reached the land ; but it was otherwise ordained, and you,
who so truly depend upon the "will of God!" will feel
that what is is best

No one then advocated the measure, because it was not
generally known; but now that the proposition has been
publicly promulgated, and reason brought to bear upon it,
the newspapers have echoed its truth and advantages from
end to end of the country. Ido not, therefore, ask you
to depend upon my simple word ; but as ail the agricultural
authorities now fully bear out what in November last I
urged as the real and simple remedy, I implore you, for
your own sakes, at once to follow the advice which I pub-
lish for your good. If you doubt me, ask your clergyman,
and he will tell you whether I am wrong or right.
Lose not a moment in planting your potatoes; and for
this year use beds or ridges, with deep furrows between,
so as to let all the water run off.
Manure the ground just as usual ; cover the set, at least
six inches, with fine earth ; that is, do not put on clods :
make the covering snug and close, and finish your ridges

off evenly

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Run. the beds so that the water may get off readily ;
and do not plant in any ground which will be flooded in

winter

Follow this plan, and, please God, you will have a good
crop early nest year.
Do not be afraid of the frost—it will not injure the set;
and even should the shoot come up and be cut off, it will
e again, and give you a sound potato early in the sea-
'i y u but cover the seed as I have told you. And I
shall no show you why, because I wish you to know as

son, If yo'

well as myself.
When you put your potatoes into pits in autumn and
cover them closely up with straw and clay and that they
are a little time lying together, they begin to heat, just as
you know a green rick of hay would : but they cant take
tire, because they are so very wet in themselves—still they
heat Well, the consequence is, as -soon as they get
warm, they shoot and grow ; and if the winter should be.
mild (as it has been in Ireland for several years) they shoot
more ; and so, by the time spring comes, the whole pit is
filled with shoots, some a yard or two long.

Just think of this. Must it not take away almost all
the strength of the potato? And when you pull off the
shoots, which are the principal part of its life, and then
put that potato for seed into the ground, you cannot surely
wonder that it either misses entirely, or that what it pro-
duces must be weak and diseased.
Suppose. now, that you had a parcel of oats, on a loft,
that you were keeping for seed ; and that you found, when
you were going to sow it, that it was all sprouted, would
you not think yourselt a very great fool to put that in the
ground, hoping to get a good crop? To be sure you
would ; in fact you would not use it at all. Yet this is
just what you have been doing with the potato for many a
year. You have put it in a pit warmer than the ground,
or the natural air, and after growing there by means of
that increased heat, from November till May very likely,
you expect it to give you a sound offspring, although it
has left almost all its life in the pit.
Now, you know this is quite contrary to nature. You
cannot expect a strong child from a weak parent ; and why
the poor potato is to be worse treated than anything else
in its propagation I cannot see. If you want a good crop
of wheat you buy sound seed ; if oats, you do the same—
in short, for all crops except the potato ; but you use IT
so badly, that you first drive almost all its strength and
growth away, and then you put it in the ground more than
half dead, expecting it to give you sound produce.
This, then, is the reason why autumn planting should
be at once adopted and always followed—because, when
you plant at that time, all the power and vigour of the
seed is given to the offspring. When natnre calls upon it
to grow, it grows as she wishes, which cannot be wrong.
Not like the forced and unnatural growth in the pit, which
is given out uselessly, tben lost, and the plant left to de-
pend on whatever little life may still remain for the repro-
duction.

Do not hesitate, then, to plant your potatoes now; next
year you will have a good crop, and a year or two will.
with the permission of Providence. make the potato as
sound as it ever was, if you
8o continue.
Now, if yon can contrive, in addition to this, to burn a
it tle turf into charcoal, which you all understand can be
simply done; and after breaKing it about as fine as sand,brow a small handful or even dusting of it, on each set
wll find that the crop will be stronger and be 4