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ef food for them. 
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lows: Place ten pounds of flour and one 
pound of ground rice, with the ufual quan- 
tity of yeaft, before a fire for about two 
hours, then form into bread in the common 
way. 
This excellent corrective of damaged 
flour is, I believe, known to many; but 
I with to add to its publicity, by feeing 
it inferted in your widely extended mifcel- 
Jany; and further hope, each of your 
readers will ufe his endeavours to publifh 
3t in the circle of his acquaintance. 
Chefter, Feb. 12,1800. Your's, &c. 
Co Wi: 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
HINTS RELATIVE TO AGRICULTURE, 
WITH NOTICES OF NEW IMPROVE- 
MENTS IN THE PRACTICE OF THAT 
IMPORTANT ART. 
(To be continued occafonally. } 
HE increafing dearnefs of moft of thofe 
kinds of grain that are commonly em- 
ployed in the feeding of hogs, poultry, and 
other domeftic animals, fhould lead far- 
mers to the cultivation of fuch other fub- 
flances as can be advantageouily grown on 
the poorer forts of foil, and employed 
with equal or fuperior effects as articles 
Of this fort is duck- 
avbeat, which, from the few attempts that 
a J 
‘have been made with it, has been found to 
be readily cultivated ; to thrive well on 
foils of inferior qualities, and to be highly 
productive. For this grain, the ground 
thould be ploughed fo as to render it to- 
lerably fine; it may then be fown about 
the fame time, and in the fame way as 
barley, and at the rate of two buihels and 
an half to the aere, , Little or no cultivation 
’ is neceflary while the crop is growing, and 
it may be cut at the fame period as other 
grain. 
So far as we have been able to afcertain 
its powers in fattening animals, it has 
conftantly been fuperior to both oats and 
barley. 
The commoner forts of potatoes, fuch 
asthofe that are termed yams, may be cul- 
tivated with great profit for the fame pur- 
pofes, as they are not only very productive, 
but capable of being raifed on poor land, 
and when prepared by means of fteam are 
highly nutritious and fattening to various 
forts of animals. They go much further 
- than is generally fuppofed when given in 
this way. Befides, the growing of this 
root is anexcellent preparation for wheat. 
In the feeding and fattening of all forts 
of animals, in order to produce the great- 
eft effects, different kinds of food fhould 
Hints relative to Agriculture.—Literary Queries. 
[April 1, 
be alternately made ufe of: by this me- 
thod they be made fat at confiderably lefs 
expence, and in much lefs time, than by 
the ordinary mode of confining them to 
one particular fort of meat. This-is a 
fact that has long been noticed by gra- 
ziers, who, to expedite the fattening of 
their cattle, have frequently recourfe to 
the change of pafture. — 
It would feem alfo probable, that by 
proper attention to variety in the food of 
milch cows, and the more frequent milk- 
ing of them, much larger quantities of 
milk might be produced, as the fecretion 
of that fluid would thereby be confiderably 
promoted. Grains, turnips, cabbages, 
grafs, and hay might be conveniently 
enough alternately employed with this 
view. Some part of this fyftem of, ma- 
nagement has indeed been adopted by in- 
telligent cow-kcepers, but the whole, we 
believe, might very beneficially be put in 
execution. 
SS 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HOUGH the tragedies of Seneca have 
many faults, ‘they have beauties 
which fhould be revealed to the Englifh 
reader. I fhould, therefore, be happy to 
learn that a new tranflation of thefe neg- 
lected dramas is in contemplation, parti- 
cularly fince Mr. Baden’s edition promifes 
to fupply all the deficiencies and correct 
all the errors in the original text. It ap- 
pears from a recent publication, that Se- 
neca was a great favourite with the early 
Italian dramatifts. In the language of 
Italy there are feveral imitations, and 
{ome good verfions, of this poet. At the 
hands of Ludovico Dolce he has received 
great juttice. 
Permit me to afk whether there be an 
Englifh verfion of the Pifcatory Eclogues 
of Sannazarius ? , 
May the Englith reader hope for a tran- 
flation of Sophocles from Mr. Potter? 
Feb. 20; 1800. A. Z. 
P.\S. In Lettioni in deffefa della CANACE, 
Ven. 1597, is the following paflage, which I 
fhall beg leave to fubmit to fuch of your rea- 
ders as have made Holy Writ their peculiar 
ftudy. . 
“6 I Salmi fono compoftiin verfi, nom pure da 
David, ma dé Moifé.” 
Probably few of your readers may know 
that the ftory of the Jdyflerious Mather occurs 
almoft verbatim in a icarce and forgotten 
werk, the ninth volume of the Speétatory 
No. 54. 
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