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nificant for inquiry, because the investigation of apparent trifles 

 has often led to important discoveries. 



A bushel of good linseed at 55. &d., weighing 48 lbs., if pro- 

 perly formed into compound with three or four times the weight 

 of bean, pea, or ordinary wheat meal, and a little more than 

 double the weight of the whole in water, will cost about 2Z. lbs. 

 per ton. The superiority of this economical food to foreign 

 oil-cake is explained by reverting to the fact, that one at the 

 best is merely the refuse of linseed, while the other is made of 

 the seed itself. The reason why bullocks will fatten upon 

 cooked more than upon raw food, I must leave the chemical 

 farmer to explain ; but it is certain that linseed meal, given in 

 a crude state, will scarcely produce half the effect ; nor yet if 

 the ingredients were mixed up with cold water, or put into 

 the copper before the water boiled. 



My pigs are fattened upon boiled peas, which I find a more 

 economical plan than any other. Sheep also thrive well upon 

 them ; and I have no doubt but that cooked beans are equally 

 adapted to pigs and sheep. 



Coppers will be found useful appendages to farm premises 

 for more purposes than I have described, and superior to any 

 steam apparatus that I have yet seen ; a little management 

 only being required, which will soon be gained by experience. 



I must now conclude with the expression of a hope that this 

 letter will prove an acceptable reply to my numerous corre- 

 spondents, that farmers will take advantage of those inex- 

 haustible resources which Providence has placed at their dis- 

 posal, and that landlords will co-operate with their tenants, 

 in rendering them subservient to the wants of the long train of 

 dependants, who now call upon them for work in vain. 



Should Farmers' Clubs be desirous of bringing these topics 

 more prominently before their respective counties and neigh- 

 bourhoods, they will ever find me ready to afford them all the 

 assistance in my power. 



I am, &c., 



John Warnes, Jun. 



P.S. — In your Journal last week, and also in that of the pre- 

 ceding, I observed two letters, one from Mr. W. P. Taunton, 



