35iS Description of a Machine for the [May, 



injurious to wheat is not unfrequently favourable to the crop of 

 potatoes, and vice versa. 1 must also observe that the farina forms 

 an excellent ingredient in sea biscuit, in the proportions of two 

 parts of farina to three of wheaten flour, or even of three parts 

 farina to four of wheaten flour. A composition of this sort is more 

 likely to resist the effects of climate, from the incorruptible pro- 

 perty already mentioned, than if the biscuits were wholly made of 

 wheaten flour. 



Such are some of the more leading advantages likely to be pro- 

 duced by the proposed introduction of the flour of potatoes into 

 bread, and the change of system to which it would give rise. We 

 are now, perhaps, on the eve of another alteration in the Corn 

 Laws, calculated to render the present high prices perpetual. A 

 Committee is sitting upon them, composed of men of landed pro- 

 perty ; and I have heard that it is in contemplation to prevent the 

 importation of foreign wheat when the price of British wheat is 

 under 96s. per quarter. This, then, is peculiarly the moment to 

 introduce an alteration in the system, which would render such a 

 ■measure unnecessary, and which, instead of perpetuating high 

 prices, would produce amongst us all the blessings of plenty. They 

 may be summed up in these words : — We shall have a greater 

 regularity, and a certain reduction of price; an immense increase 

 of consumable food ; its more equal distribution through years of 

 scarcity and years of plenty ; 



A consequent diminution of the poor's rates; 



An increase of comforts to the poor, and to all classes of society* 

 and a great accession to our resources in every branch of national 



wealth. 



J. Whatelv. 



April 29, 1813. 



EXPERIMENTS ON BREAD. 



