300 On preparing Potatoes in Digesters 



flavoured, particularly the fat : the pigs had, towards thft 

 latter end, a few whole peas after each meal ; the bucks 

 had six pounds per day each, at an average ; the lean deer 

 in the park do very well with little more than a pound per 

 day, instead of hay. This year, that is within the last 

 seven or eight months, I have fattened two very large oxen 

 and twenty Welch wethers ; the wethers, with which there 

 were two South-Down rams, and one ewe, had eighty- 

 pounds of the potatoes per day, with a little cut hay. The 

 ewe was put with them to teach the other sheep to eat 

 them : she has shice had twin lambs ; and the bailiff ac- 

 knowledges that the lambs do better than the others at tur- 

 nips, though he, with some other persons, dissuaded me- 

 from tryino; more ewes, under the idea that the potatoes 

 would dry up their milk. Four dairy cows never did so 

 well with very good hay, as they did last winter with about 

 four pounds of the potatoes ai^^d about five pounds of rub- 

 bishy hav and straw cut. But'enough on this head. 



''The' carl of EsTemont had two of the Welch vvcthers, 

 and a sirloin of betf from one of the oxen. The other, for 

 sale, on the 22(\. of March, weighed 343 stone ; he has had 

 about forty pounds thrice a day. I take the liberty of re- 

 ferring to lord Egremont for the flavour of the meat. He 

 has seen the process ; and I shall request the honour of his 

 lordship's transmitting this to you, in case he thinks it de- 

 serving the society's attention. I am, sir. 



Your obedient servaiit. 



Burton Park, near Pctworth, W. PlEUREl'ONT." 



April 28, ii'03. 



Charles Taylor, Esq. 



" 1 know nothing of the expense of preparing potatoes 

 in this manner, but I am inchned to think that they are 

 more nutritious than in any other mode of dressing. I did 

 not think it possible to brmg such large oxen to sucli a state 

 of fatness upon potatoes. 



" Egremont." 



" SIR, 



"■ With all due acknowledgment to the Societv of Arts, 

 Sec. for the honour they have done me, as communicated 

 to me in your letter of the 27th instant, and which came to 

 hand yesterday, I could wish the subjoined additions to be 

 made to the account you already have. My reason for 

 wishing it is, that any person willing to try the method in 

 question may pro-fit by the general result of the many and 



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