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part k turns in, to a higher one near to one fide 

 of the tub. Then open the door of the vefTel, 

 turn it round, and deliver the potatoes into a 

 wheel-barrow. 



Potatoes ihould not be given to horfes in 

 large quantities : I do not approve of working 

 horfes being fed with them. 



Young horfes may thrive very well on po- 

 tatoes: but it will be advifeable to give them 

 cither fome cut draw or other dry food at the 

 time, as they are too juicy and cold of them- 

 felves, although horfes are very fond of them. 

 Many people boil or fleam potatoes for horfes, 

 cattle, &c. but I do not approve of that prac- 

 tice, as they flick in the teeth of the animal, 

 and are difagreeable. I think it would be bet- 

 ter if they were only jufl warmed through. If 

 cattle be fed on potatoes, chaff or chopped flraw 

 fhould be mixed with them, as they are liable 

 to choak with eating potatoes alone. There 

 have been numberlefs accidents of that kind : 

 therefore precaution is neceflary. 



Giving too large a quantity at one time may 

 prove of great detriment: this caution mufl be 

 attended to, not only in refpect to potatoes, 

 but many forts of green food, fuch as the dif- 

 ferent 



