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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40002	Englands happiness increased, or, A sure and easie remedy against all succeeding dear years by a plantation of the roots called potatoes, whereof (with the addition of wheat flower) excellent, good and wholesome bread may be made every year, eight or nine months together, for half the charge as formerly : also by the planting of these roots ten thousand men in England and Wales, who know not how to live or what to do to get a maintenance for their families, may of one acre of ground make thirty pounds per annum / invented and published for the good of the poorer sort, by John Forster ...	Forster, John.	1664 (1664)	Wing F1601; ESTC R40960	16,456	38

may perhaps be worth eight nine or ten Shillings a year or if it be Pasture or Grass Ground it may be worth twenty Shillings or more we will count how much more profit may be made of it by planting it with these Roots than can be made of it if it lye for Grass or be sowed with Corn and so we shall perceive what the Planters Gain will be And first Every Acre of Ground contains eight-score square Poles or Perches Now suppose that one Pole should bear but one Bushel of Roots in the Acre there would be eight-score Bushels of Roots and every Bushel I mean an heaped Bushel for so such things are alwayes measured will make as much Bread as a Bushel of Corn Here is eight-score Bushels of Roots against twenty thirty or forty Bushels of Corn which is as much as an Acre can yield Now if these Roots may be sold for twelve Pence a Bushel which they are very well worth the eight-score Bushels come to eight Pounds But further if every Pole of Ground yields three or four Bushels of Roots as it will if the Ground be good and yet you may leave enow to store the Ground the next year then is the Gain much the more for out of the Acre may be digged six hundred and forty Bushels which being sold for twelve Pence a Bushel comes to thirty two Pounds thus you may see what Profit may be made of one Acre planted with these Roots Besides the Ground being once planted there is no more charge nor trouble about them unless it be to destroy them which is very hardly done Neither is there any need of Dunging provided the Ground be good at the first for the Stalks being spread upon the Ground when the Roots are digged and there suffered to lye and rot serve instead of Dung whereas for Corn the Ground must every year be dunged ploughed and sowed But if any will bestow Dung upon his Ground then he may reserve the Stalks for Fuel which if well dryed and laid up will be worth the Dung he layes upon his Plantation but they must be left abroad till after Christmass and often turned before they will be through dry but being dry they will be excellent Fuel for brewing heating of Ovens or the like uses As for the Price of the Roots I think none will grudge to give twelve Pence the Bushel for them if they consider what may be saved by them for if when Corn is at five Shillings a Bushel a man may have as much Bread as two Bushels of Corn will make for six Shillings he will have little cause to think it dear because it saves four Shillings in every two Bushels besides a great deal of pains six Shillings being sooner earned than ten and also men that have Ground will be the more encouraged to plant when they see that there is good gain to be made of them But some may say What Profit will be made of them in a plentiful year for when Corn is cheap no body will make Bread of them To which I Answer That in a time of the greatest plenty Bread may be made with one half of these Roots and the other half of Wheat or Barley cheaper than with all Wheat or Barley besides the Bread which is made with Barley and these Roots is whiter and far better than Barley Bread even almost as good as that of Wheat wherefore I cannot think but that they will be used as well in a plentiful year as in a dear year Thus much of the Benefit these Roots will yield to the Planters thereof we will now treat of the other Utilities and Benefits the use of them will bring to the whole Kingdom setting them down every one in particular The First Vtility THe first Utility will be to His Majesty who of the Planters of these Roots may have a Revenue of forty or fifty thousand Pounds per Annum willingly and freely without any manner of compulsion for that thereby the Planters gain and benefit of their Plantations will be made the more certain Now this Revenue may be raised without any Charge at all to His Majesty and without any manner of damage or discontent to any Subject whatsoever after this manner following First If it shall please His Majesty to command that there be brought out of Ireland so many of the said Roots as that with those which already are to be had in England and Wales every man which shall be Licensed by His Majesty to plant of them may have one Bushel at least to begin his Plantation with And if after the Roots are brought over such a course be taken as that they may be conveyed to all the chief Towns throughout England then the Planters may fetch them four or five joyning together without much charge allowing notwithstanding to those that bring them sufficient gain Now if every Planter have one Bushel he may with that plant about four Poles of Ground cutting every Peck into four hundred pieces and planting them as hath been shewed before and by yearly digging them up and planting more Ground without diminishing of them still leaving that which was first planted sufficiently stored with the increase of the second year he may have an Acre and half or two Acres of Ground planted So that at the end of two years and an half he may begin to digg up the Roots to sell and at the end of three years he shall have received one years profit and then all his charge and trouble will be at an end besides the yearly digging of them up which is but little considering the profit he makes by them Secondly If His Majesty will be pleased to command that there be in every Town and Parish one or two according to the bigness of the several Towns and Parishes that shall plant and keep planted with the said Roots each man an Acre and half or two Acres of Ground that they may be sufficiently stored with them Or which is a more certain way that there be for every hundred Families one Planter with all prohibiting all persons whatsoever from planting of them either to sell or for their own private use but only those which have License and Authority from His Majesty to plant and sell them which perhaps may be about the number of ten thousand there being in England and Wales almost ten thousand Parishes and although some Parishes have not an hundred Families yet others have two three or four hundred Families therefore it is probable there may be ten thousand Planters in England and Wales and questionless so many Roots may be had in Ireland and Wales and in the North of England as that every Planter may have a Bushel or more Thirdly If His Majesty shall be pleased to command the use of these Roots by all people in all parts of England and Wales viz. by putting one half or a third part thereof into their Bread for six Months together every

till they will break between your Fingers but let them not break in the boyling lest they be too much soaked with water when they are boyled enough which will be in a quarter of an hour or less take them out and with an Iron Truel rub them through a thick Wier Sieve which being done you may make Bread of them two wayes First Take an equal weight of the Roots thus prepared and of Wheat or Barley Flower and mingle them well together then put to it as much warm Water mix'd with a little Barme as will make it into very stiffe Dough and with a little Salt knead it well together Secondly Take ten Pounds of Wheat or Barley Flower fifteen Pounds of the Roots prepared as aforesaid or so much as will make the Flower into very stiffe Dough without either Water or Barme yet if you perceive that it be not hollow enough you may adde a little Barme Of these two kinds of Dough may be made thin Loaves which must be baked in an Oven well heated for it requires something more baking than other Bread And thus may Bread be made as well in dear as in plentiful years at easie and cheap Rates not without great benefit both to Rich and Poor there being none of so dainty a Palate or so finely fed but may eat this Bread with pleasure and profit And although some there may be who will find fault with it yet the time may come when those that most dislike it may be glad to make use of it However I doubt not but that this my Experiment will by poor People and those of small Estates be well approved of and also in convenient time be made use of to the Glory of God and the good of themselves and their Families AN APPENDIX TOUCHING The Propagation of these Roots by the Seeds AFter I had written this Treatise and fitted it for the Press I found that these Roots might be increased by the Seeds or Berries which till then I knew not for that the year before I took the Seeds out of the Berries and sowed them and they never sprang up and therefore I thought that the Seed came not to sufficient maturity in our Climate But to make further trial this last year I set divers of the Berries whole which contrary to my expectation came up about the beginning of June and are now half a Foot high July the 8. If any will plant the Berries for the more speedy increasing of their store of Roots they must set them in good rich and hollow Ground well digged and raked and divided into long narrow Beds about two Foot wide with Alleys between them that they may be the better weeded for the Berries being set in March will not come up before June and therefore the Ground will be full of Weeds which will choak the young Potatoes if they be not diligently weeded As for the time of gathering the Berries it must be about October when they are turned a little white and when they are gathered they must be laid thin upon a boarded Floor till March and then set into the Ground as aforesaid and so will they spring up in June that year yield Roots to plant again the next which may either be digged up and planted thinner or else left in the Ground which the year following will be mightily filled with them This I thought good to adde by way of Appendix for the better and more speedy increasing of these Roots Thou O God hast of thy goodness prepared for the Poor Psal 68. Ver. 10. He satisfieth the empty soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness Psal 107. 9. FINIS Thevit saith the Americans call them Hetich What kind of Ground they must be planted in The manner of planting them To make Bread of Potatoes The Roots themselves are not windy therefore not the Bread Paste of Potatoes Puddings Custards of Potatoes Cheescakes Cakes The Benefit of Potatoes to the Planters An Acre of Ground will yield 640. Bushels of Roots The Price of them The First Utility of Potatoes An Objection The Answer Another Objection The Answer The Second Utility The Third Utility The Fourth Utility The Fifth Utility The Sixth Utility