40 Uses of the Potatoe. 



" Two hundred bushels of potatoes to the acre, is called by 

 the farmers an average crop in Maine, yielding, according to 

 the foregoing experiments, about eight barrels of flour to the 

 acre." 



The following article, extracted from the last number of the 

 Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, will be found in- 

 teresting in this connection : 



" In Germany, a method has lately been introduced, of 

 making flour from potatoes, which has not, I believe, been 

 tried in this country, but which is recommended as giving 

 a better, a more palatable, and a more abundant article of 

 nourishment than the common process of preparing potatoe 

 starch. This method consists in washing the potatoes, cut- 

 ting them into slices, as we do turnips, steeping these slices 

 for twenty-four hours in water containing one per cent, of 

 sulphuric acid, (oil of vitriol) drawing off the acid water, 

 washing them several times with pure water, drying them in 

 a stove, and then grinding them in a common corn-mill. The 

 flour thus obtained is pure white, and the refuse siftings or 

 bran, seldom exceed five per cent, of the weight of the dried 

 potatoes. The sulphuric acid in this process extracts the 

 coloring matter of the potatoe, with certain other substances 

 which would give the flour an unpleasant taste. This flour 

 will not make good bread if used alone. It requires to be 

 mixed with from one-half to one-third of wheaten flour." 



But the following is the most interesting piece of informa- 

 tion that we have met with on this subject. It refers to the 

 most economical method of using the potatoe crop as food for 

 cattle : 



" As I have said so much on the subject of potatoes, I may 

 as well describe to you a method which has lately been re- 

 commended in Denmark and Norway, for making the potatoe 

 more available and more profitable in feeding cattle than it 

 has ever hitherto been. You are probably aware that potatoe 



