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SHOEING OP HORSES IN INDIA. 
The potato is also valuable for the quantity of starch or flour 
obtained from it; this being largely used when mixed with 
wheat flour for making bread. Sugar, resembling grape 
sugar, is likewise made from it, readily undergoing fermen¬ 
tation, and yielding alcoholic products. “ A beautiful yellow 
dye, both solid and durable, is obtained from the flow r ers of 
the potato plant, and a dye of a gray colour is yielded by the 
juice of the potato.” 
The following is an analysis of the potato— 
Starch 
. 64*20 
Dextrin 
2-25 
Saccharine matter 
. 13-47 
Albumen 
Casein . 
. £ 5-77 
Gluten 
.3 
Fatty matter . 
1-00 
Fibre or husk . 
. 13-31 
With this I shall conclude my observations on the plants 
whose roots, leaves, and stems, yield food for our domestic 
animals. In no department has the science of agriculture 
been employed of late years with greater benefit than in this, 
and "we may rest assured that as attention still continues to 
be directed and investigations carried on in this important 
subject, many plants, which like the carrot and turnip 
in their original state are equally insignificant, and equally 
obscure, will, under the influence of cultivation, be brought 
to yield a valuable supply of food for animals, and be placed 
side by side with those which already bear such evidence of 
its success. 
(To he continued .) 
SHOEING OF HORSES IN INDIA. 
By a “ Subscriber.” 
Gentlemen, —As the “ Principles and Practice of Shoeing” 
is a subject apparently occupying much attention at home 
just now, I think a little information with reference to the 
system obtaining out here, where natives are generally em¬ 
ployed to do the work, may not be out of place. 
To begin at the beginning, then:—In taking off the old 
shoes the buffer is used to cut the clenches, and if the shoe 
does not readily come off each individual nail is drawn out 
with the pincers. In paring the foot, only the exfoliating 
