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First edition, 4to (270 x 205 mm), viii, [2], 177, [1]pp., without half-title, 7 engraved plates (one folding, one double-page, one slightly cropped), title browned, later boards. The author of this important report may well be Sir John Sinclair., President of the Board of Agriculture. The publication had its origins in a speech by Sinclair early in 1795 in which he stressed the scarcity and high price of grain and other ëprovisionsí and that ìthe most effective remedy which had occurred to him was, to encourage as much as possible, an increased culture of potatoes, which could be cultivated almost in any ground, and might be planted where wheat could not be raised at all. potatoes would be a certain resource as food for man; or if the crop were abundant, they might be converted to the purpose of fattening stock.î Not in Fussell, Rothamsted or Perkins.