FEBRUARY. 97 



** I will now proceed to relate the use I made of 

 this root. In the first place, I pat up 16 hogs a 

 fattening upon thc i m. The method I took in giv- 

 ing them to the hogs, was throwing the parsnips 

 on the ground whole. This I continued for about 

 a month, when finding my hogs grow heavy, I ob- 

 served they did not go on so well with them as at 

 first. Upon this I boiled the parsnips, and made 

 wash of them : thickening the wash with half a 

 bushel of barley-meal every clay. I gave it them 

 in a trough, and continued this method for two 

 months, when I killed them, aod found them to 

 be, very good meat ; weighing from 28 to 33 stone 

 per hog. One of them, being very large, weighed 

 58 stone. The neat value of rny hogs, when killed, 

 amounted to 52h 17s. 4d. The whole expence of 

 of my barley-meal with which I thickened the wash, 

 amounted to 3l. 18s. Qd. ; of the firing to boil 

 them, at 6d. per day, ll. 10s. ; of a boy to look 

 after them for three months, at 6d, per day, 2l. 6s. 

 which sums, added to the expences attending the 

 parsnips, prime cost of the hogs, &c. amount in 

 the whole to 35l. so that my profit upon this ar- 

 ticle only, is 17!. l6s. 8d. which remains to be 

 carried to the account of the parsnips. After my 

 hogs were killed I kept four dairy cows upon the 

 remainder of the parsnips for three months, which, 

 at Is. 6d. per week, amounted to 3l. 1-is. ; and thii 

 sum, added to the Ijl. l6s. 8d. before mentioned, 

 makes the neat profit on the one acre of parsnips 

 to be 24l. 8s. 7d, 



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