802. Process for making a useful Pasie from Potatoes. 
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LXV. Process for making a useful Paste from Potatoes, for 
the Use of Weavers, Bookbinders, Trunkmakers, Upholsterers, 
&c. By Mr. Cuaryzes Drury, of Mansfield, Nottingham- 
shire*, 
Six, Permrr me to lay before the Society of Arts, &c. a sub- 
stitute for wheat-flour paste. I have given it a fair trial for ten 
months past, in order to convince myself and others of its useful- 
ness. From these experiments, I have no doubt it will prove 
equal to, if not surpass, that made from flour, for paper-hangers, 
stationers,. weavers, trunkmakers, calico-printers, &c. and also 
for labels, cards, and _pasteboard, as it may, with ease, be made 
free from lumps, and does not admit the air to get under the 
paper as in common paste, or injure the colour. It is free from 
any offensive smell, and not above one-third of the price of that 
prepared from flour. The use of potatoe paste will cause a saving 
of many thousand bags of flour annually, to be applied to the 
nourishment of mankind._ 
One peck of potatoes, when prepared, will make upwards of 
thirty-eight pounds of paste, and one acre of land planted with 
potatoes would produce more than many acres of wheat. I 
shall be happy to attend, and give the Committee full explana- 
tion upon the subject. 
I remain, sir, 
Your most obedient, humble servant, 
Cuaries Drury. 
Mansfield, May 1, 1812. 
To C. Taylor, M.D. Sec. 
Process for preparing Mr. Drury’s Paste from Potatoes. 
Take one pound of raw potatoes well washed from dirt, grate 
them fine on a common tin grater, without paring them, into two 
pints and a half'of water; then boil the whole mixture imme- 
* From Transactions of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. for 
1813.—Ten guineas were voted for this communication, 
diately, 
