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fpeedlly and make fine meat. Another ufe I have 

 put them to, which has been Httle pradtifed, or 

 thought of; that is, for the feed of milch-cows. 

 Three gallons a day, half at night and half in the 

 morning is quite fufEcient to keep a large cow in full 

 milk, and the milk as fweet and as good as in the 

 fummer months. Nothing excels them for the feed 

 of cows which are fatting their calves for the but- 

 cher. I fatted four laft fpring, which were fold for 

 from 35s. to above 40s. a calf, which was double 

 what I ever fold any for at this place before. Laft 

 year, after taking them up, feveral calves, about fix 

 or feven months old, were turned into the potatoe 

 ground with the cows; they fed upon them as kindly 

 as fo many pigs, and preferred them to every thing 

 elfe they could meet with. 



I have had no experience of their ufe as food for 

 horfes ; but I have been aiTured by a gentleman 

 who refided fome years in Ireland, that he kept his 

 hunter, a ftone-horfe, entirely upon them inftead of 

 corn. He ate nothing elfe, excepting hay between 

 his feeds of potatoes, as other horfes ; yet he was as 

 fat, as healthy, as ftrong, and as full of fpirits, as if 

 he had given him all the corn he could eat. 



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