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^VOppingf produce an equal quantity of food* In corroboration of 
this opinion, let us suppose five hundred acres of wheat, yielding 
twenty-four Winchesters, per acre, of 60lbs. or six hundred thou- 
sand pounds of bread, equal to supplying four thousand persons 
with half a pound of bread for three hundred days. The con- 
sumption then would be half a pound of bread to four pounds of 
potatoes. The comfort derived from the use of potatoes by the 
Working classes, affords a most powerful argument in favour of 
their general introduction — no food 'is more nutritious, none so 
universally palatable. The philanthropist and politician will 
equally promote their views, by extending the use and culture of 
the potatoe, 
“ For eight years past I have fed all my working horses upon 
steam potatoes, mixed with cut straw, and latterly I have with 
equal success given them to oxen. They would answer for milch 
cows, and fattening cattle, if they could be raised at less expence» 
My consumption for eight months in the year is a ton and a half 
per day, or about three hundred and sixty tons annually — =the land 
used, in feeding with potatoes as a substitute for hay, is be^ 
tween a sixth and a seventh — fifty acres of potatoes will furnish 
above the quantity required, whilst three hundred and fifty acres 
of hay would most frequently fall short of supporting the same 
number of working horses and oxen— the advantage of this sys-^ 
tern extends beyond the individual, and is felt both immediately 
and remotely by the mass of the community. In the first place^ 
the ground heretofore indispensably requisite for the growth of 
hay, for horses is now applied to the purposes of a dairy, and in the 
last year 507,(524 quarts of milk were sold, whereas in 1804, only 
222,755. In years of scarcity, tlie food of horses can be applied 
to the use of main 
J. C. CURWEN/^ 
BUTTER. 
SEVERAL specimens of Swedish turnip butter, from th^ 
dairy of Mr. Ives, of Catton, were exhibited at the principal inns 
in Norwich, on the 15th of April ; and being placed on the din- 
gier tables at each house, gentlemen had a fair opportunity afford® 
ea them of pronouncing a decided opinion upon its quality. 
It has afforded a cqnvmcing proof, that turnips of ail descrip- 
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