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USES OF POTATOES. 
In times of scarcity their value is well known as 
human food, when cheap they are of great use to pigs 
and cattle; to make pigs fat they should be boiled and 
mixed with about onp-third part of ground barley, rye, 
or other meal; store pigs that go about thrive well with 
potatoes in a raw state; and, by giving a feed of raw" 
potatoes once a day to fatting pigs, they require less 
water, and by thus changing their food they w ill thrive 
better than by confining them to one sort of food only. 
Potatoes when boiled are good food for all kind of 
fowds in a lean state, and will make them fat with 
speed, mixed w r ith a third or fourth part of barley- 
meal, which is also good food for dogs, and further im¬ 
proved by a little oatmeal, skim-milk, or butter-milk.— 
Mr. Carpenter. 
Respecting the sorts planted, the names are merely 
provincial, and w r ould, therefore, convey no general 
idea. A great variety of early and late sorts have been 
raised, and their qualities are well known to every 
cottager w r ho has a garden ; the sorts called here blue 
kidney, and Prussian w'hite, w r ere named to me by Mr. 
C- as famed for excellent cropping. 
The quantity of potatoes raised in this county is 
very considerable, not only sufficient for their^own 
consumption for man and beast, but large quantities 
are sent to the market of Birmingham, and to the po¬ 
pulous parts of Staffordshire. 
Turnips are pretty much grown in this county, and 
in various rotations ; on friable loamy soils, very often 
after the ploughing up of a wdieat, or other stubble, in 
autumn; cross ploughing and harrowing dowui the same 
in 
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