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tive as barley-meal; and thereby enhanced the 

 value of the potatoes more than a halfpenny per 

 bufhel. Fourteen fhillings being the difference of 

 the coft of barley-meal and gurgians. 



I have omitted making any charge for attending 

 thefe hogs, as I deem the manure they have made 

 equal in value to fuch expence. 



GEORGE WINTER. 



REMARKS. 



" We perfectly agree with Mr. Winter, that large, 

 or rather full-grown hogs yield a greater profit in feeding 

 upon potatoes, than fmaller ones. But in the experiments 

 before us, the porkers feem to have been bought exceffively 

 dear, and not kept long enough to afford a fair trial of the 

 meat. And if the large hogs had been kept a month lon- 

 ger, they would probably have yielded a larger profit, both 

 from the advance of the price of their flefh in the following- 

 month, and becaufe they are conftantly obferved to in- 

 creafe more in weight, and confume lefs food in the laft 

 month of their fattening. 



" We apprehend thefe experiments were made with the 

 Surinam, or what is vulgarly called the white-blofTomed 

 potatoes, which have been found lefs nutritious than the 

 common mealy potatoe. Befides, no juft conclufion can 

 be drawn from thefe experiments to afcertain the value of 

 potatoes, as the hogs in both cafes were too fmall to do 

 juftice to that application of tliem. 



