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mode with barley-meal fcalded and mixed in the 

 trough. But from various and repeated experi- 

 ments, I have found the following the moft pro- 

 fitable method of applying potatoes, to not only 

 the rearing, but likevvife to fattening of hogs ; va- 

 rying the quantity given according to the circum- 

 ftances of rearing, or fattening. 



When rearing, a fmall quantity of food given 

 once or twice a day, with lucerne, clover, grafs, 

 jind offals, is fufficient. 



When fattening, a conflant fupply is effentially 

 jieceffary, fo as not to leave the troughs incum- 

 bered with ftale meat, which fhould be cleared 

 out, and given to ftore fwine. 



An iron furnace is the moft falutary for boiling 

 potatoes. Should time or conveniency not per- 

 mit to have it emptied for feveral days, no bad 

 confequence can enfue. Copper, or copper and 

 lead, are extremely dangerous, as they generate 

 poifon ; therefore, they fliould be immediately emp- 

 tied and cleaned. 



The method I have lately adopted, and always 

 (liall purfuc, until a better be pointed out, is, to 

 fill about three parts of a furnace with potatoes ; 



when 



