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of this kingdom. — I could extend thefe reflections, 

 but as it is only a Tingle experiment, I do no more 

 than call upon others to try fimilar ones, that 

 from a great variety of applications the real value 

 may be known. 



The winter following I tried a fimilar experi- 

 ment on potatoes; and as the refult was remark- 

 able, I mall add it. 



Nov. 21, 1781, weighed alive fixteen wether 

 lambs, that, like the former, had had the fum- 

 mer's grafs. Average weight 891b. in all 1,4321b* 

 Hurdled a pen on dry grafs, and gave them po- 

 tatoes, the duller fort. In the firft twenty-three 

 days they ate but twenty-live bulhels. Perceiv- 

 ing them to look very thin, I weighed them 

 again, January 14, and the total weight then 

 was 1,2641b. they had confequently loll i68lb.; 

 by the 16th, they had eaten fixty bulhels, and I 

 then put them to turnips. Thus nothing could 

 be more decifivc againfi: this application of clus- 

 tered potatoes. 



I was, however, informed in Ireland of a fcore 

 or two of wethers being raifed to an uncommon 

 degree of fatnefs by potatoes ; but they were pro- 

 bably the common fort, which I am apt to think, 



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