16 farmers' and mechanics' journal. 



The expense of this mode must vary with the price of the arti- 

 cle ; at present it is very low. Let us suppose that we have a 

 horse that performs hard labor every day in the year, a stage horse 

 for instance, and we are inclined to give him the provender laid 

 down in Class 1. 



He would require during the year, 38 bushels of Oats, suppos- 

 ing them to weigh 38 lbs. per bu. cost, say, $\'2,00 

 Of Wheat, weighmg 64 lbs. per bu. 34 bu. cost, say, 34,00 

 Of Hay, 1 1-4 ton, cost, say, - . . 8,00 

 Wheat Straw, the same quantity, cost, - 5,00 

 Potatoes, weighing 64 lbs. per bu, 28 1-2 bu. 5,70 



1,70 per ann. 



This will amount to a shilling a day, a very trifling recompense 

 for a hard day's work. We know of many horses that consume 

 this amount in grain, and then waste almost thirty pounds of hay 

 besides. But we have noticed that horses thus fed, although fat 

 and plump, cannot perform their duties with so much ease and ap- 

 parent pleasure, as those fed in a manner similar to what is here 

 recommended. If thirty pounds of provender will be suflicient for 

 a horse that labors hard daily, twenty will siifhce for one that 

 works but seldom ; and where there is plenty of pasturing during 

 the summer, the cost of keeping a horse v.ill be comparatively 

 small, and instead of being one of the most expensive, he will be 

 as cheaply kept as any animal on the farm.] 



PRESERVATION OF POTATOES. 



We select the following from vol. 3d, of the New-England Farm- 

 er ; a work too well known to need our recommendation. It is 

 hoped, that it may meet some eyes that have not seen it ; and re- 

 fresh the memories of some who we know have seen it — but, 

 judging from the management of their potatoes, have forgotten it. 



A variety of conflicting opinions have been and we believe still 

 arc entertained, relative to the topic of digging and preserving Po- 

 tatoes. Formerly it was the fashion among farmers, to dig them 

 early, while the tops were entirely green and the potatoes not ripe, 

 nor indeed fully grown. They then took care to dry them in the 

 sun till the bulbs were almost as green as the balls or apples, and 

 nearly as strong as so many quids of tobacco. Potatoes treated in 

 this way become poison for pigs, and very unwholesome for all 

 other animals, including the great rationnl biped, whose sagacity is 

 as apt to zo astraj' in this as in other matters of importance 

 to his welfare. It was probably this and other injudicious modes 



