MACHINE FOR WASHING ROOTS, 337 



SIR, • 



AGREEABLE to your request 1 have procured the Great saVmg of 

 enclosed certificates, &c., on the utility of my improved root !n^°"Jtatoi^^*** 

 washer, which you will have the goodness to lay before the with it. 

 Society. 



1 have no doubt but it would save half the labour in 

 washing potatoes in London, if it were brought into use : 

 It is obvious to every one who has seen it work, that it is 

 greatly superior to the tub and levers used by the potato- 

 merchants, as it is not so liable to injure the roots. The 

 soil is drawn from them with more facility, and their fall- 

 ing into the basket from the cylinder is more clean and 

 commodious by far than taking them out of the tub with a 

 grated shovel, from the corners of which many roots are 

 bruised ; it also prevents the potatoes being injured in qua* 

 lity from being long soaked in water, from which they 

 suffer greatly in the common way. 

 I am, Sir, 



Your most obedient and humble servant, 



W. LESTER. 



Certificates of the Utility of Mr. Lester's Machine for 

 washing Tuberous Roots, 

 SIR, 



IN reply to your inquiries respecting the wtility of the Testimonies of 

 root-washer, which I purchased of you about twelve ''^ " ^ "^' 

 months since, I have much satisfaction in stating, that I have 

 used it, constantly, during the last winter, and havefoutid 

 it to answer the purpose for which it is intended most tho« 

 ronghly ; and if my opinion will be of any benefit to youj I 

 have not the least objection to your making it public. 

 I am. Sir, 



Your obedient humble servant, 



JAMES JOHN FARQUHARSON- 



SIR, 



IN answer to yours I have to observe, I consider your 

 root-washer to be a machine that no farmer, who is in the 

 habit of giving roots to his stock, ought to be without. I 

 use it constantly in washing potatoes for 150 fattening sheep, 

 beside hogs. A man, and a boy ten years old, will wash, 



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