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1906, Edwin A. Pratt, The Transition in Agriculture Chapter 10, ... potato-growing can evidently be more profitably followed by producers on a large scale, having all the advantages of labour-saving appliances, than by market-gardeners, allotment-holders, and other spade-workers on comparatively small line.
