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No. X. 



ADDITIONAL COMMUNICATION ON STEAMING POTATOES. 



By ].C. Curwen, Esq. M. P. 



My Lord, 



Conceiving it may not be unacceptable to your Lordship to be acquainted 

 with the progress that feeding horses upon steamed potatoes and cut straw, as a 

 substitute for hay, is making in Scotland, I take the liberty of inclosing you a 

 letter upon that subject. 



I have now had four years experience, and am more than ever confirmed in my 

 opinions of its efficacy, and the saving both to the individual and the public. I 

 sent a person a few months ago to Mr. Dansic, of Cleaton Park, in Herefordshire, 

 to erect an apparatusj and to put them into the method of conducting it; and have 

 the satisfaction to find that it answers extremely well: indeed it cannot fail, if fairly 

 tried. I wish his Grace the Duke of Bedford could be prevailed upon to make 

 the experiment : the extensive scale of his Grace's feeding would make it an object 

 of consequence, and call the public attention to it. The soil near Wooburn would 

 answer extremely well for potatoes. 



The extending of the culture of potatoes is an object of great national import- 

 ance, as leading to an increased growth of bread corn. Potatoes are sold in the 

 markets in this county fro;r 2yd. to ^d. per stone, but may be imported from Scot- 

 land, free of all charges, at i-^rf. Hay is selling from 8d. to lod. Since October 

 I have steamed three hundred stone daily ; allowing that quantity to be equal to 

 half the number of stones ©f hay, the saving will be, at gd. per stone, one pound 

 seventeen shillings per day. 



I beg your Loidship's pardon for occupying so nvuch of your valuaable time, 



and have the honour to be, &c. 



|. C. CUXWEN. 



I'o the Right Hon. Lord Sbejjield, 

 P.B.J. 



Workington Hall, Jan. 28, i8c6, 

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