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It may be of fome ufe to obferve here, that I 

 fuffered no lofs by this unexpefted accident, as at 

 firfl was apprehended, for they turned to better 

 account than they would have done if fold at the 

 price abovennentioned. I have fince found, by re- 

 peated experience, that beans are a much more 

 hearty and profitable food for horfes than oats. 

 Being out of old oats the two laft fprings, I fubfti- 

 tuted horfe- beans in their (lead. In the room of 

 a fack of oats with chafF, I ordered them a bulhel 

 of beans with chaff to ferve the fame time. It very 

 foon appeared the beans were fuperior to the oats, 

 from the life, fpirir, and fleeknefs of the horfes. 

 Valuing the beans at 40s. per quarter, and the oats 

 at 20s. the keep of the horfes with oats would coft 

 juft double what it did in beans, and not fo well 

 kept neither. 



What the Do6lor has advanced 01^ the diftemper 

 called the curl in potatoes, I think very juft. That 

 it is generally occafioned by diftempered feed, I have 

 not the lead doubt. How the feed becomes vitiated 

 and corrupt is another queftion, which perhaps ad- 

 jnits of no fatisfadlory folytion. There are many 

 other ways, I apprehend, by which both animals and 

 vegetables, that are robuft and health); during one 

 part of their exiftence, become diftempered, and even 



their 



