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any feafon that may be wanted, at a very fmall 

 expence. I had potatoes lad feafon wichout any 

 fort of cover, as large as to weigh from two to three 

 ounces each, by the firft of May. If you think the 

 communication of this procefs will be agreeable to 

 the fociety, I fhall fend an account of it. It never 

 has been yet defcribed in any publication that I 

 have yet heard of. 



I obferve, among the premiums for laft year, one 

 is offered for a model of a machine for bruifing 

 whins [furze] as food for cattle; I have made ufe 

 of a machine of that fort, on a farm I have in Aber- 

 deenfhire, for many years paft, which anfwers the 

 purpofe very well. By the help of an old horfe of 

 little value, it can be made to bruife enough for forty 

 head of full-grown beads, were they to eat nothing 

 clfe. I meant to have lent a model of it, but as it is 

 probable you may already have got one, I deferred 

 executing it, till 1 fhould hear from you whether you 

 had got one or not. I have alfo cultivated furze 

 as food for horfes and cattle with great profit. 



In revolving Mr. Anstie*s queries in my mind, 

 and frequently thinking of the benefits this country 

 might in time derive from being pofTeffed of a very 

 fine kind of wool of her own produce; and the 

 convenience (he in certain refpeds pofleffes above 



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