1803.] 
except new/fpapers, the difcount on ftamp- 
ing thirty pounds is one and half perc cent. 
the Staticner finding the paper, or printed 
form ; and they charged, if on paper, 
five pound per cent. on the ftamp ; if on 
parchment, the value of the parchment : 
the additional allowance is not received, if 
receipts are printed before ftamped. As 
to the remarks of ** S. H.”’ on the profit 
of Stationers—the value of their ftock of 
ftamps—and his calculatioa on beginning 
bulinefs with a capital of nine pounds, 
they are too contemptible for notice. I 
am forry that the public, by ycur Cor- 
refpoudent’s falfe ttatement, fhould fup- 
pole his Majefty’s Commiffioners of Stamps 
were fo improvident of the public money 
committed to their truft, as to allow the 
difcount ** S$. H.”’ has ftated. In juftice 
to thofe Gentlemen, and to the Stationers 
of London, I hope this ftatement will be 
inferted. Your’s, &c. : 
A VENDER OF STAMPS, 
8th Fanuary, 1803. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Pia, me to afk fome of your 
learned Correfpondents, whether Te- 
rence was not edited by Grierfon, of Dub- 
lin, who publithed an edition of Tacitus, 
to the excellency of which Dr. Harwood 
bears this fingular teftimony, ‘* that it is 
one of the beft-edited books ever delivered 
to the world.” Of this edition of Terence 
Dr. Harwood makes no mention. I have 
alfo turned over without effect the cata- 
logues of the firt bookfellers in town.— 
Any information refpetting the above 
will oblige your conftant reader, 
Wa. Marr. 
Baruet, January 12, 1803. 
—T a 
Tothe Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AVING obferved the ufefulnefS of 
parfneps and carrots, I dug and 
trenched a plot of good loamy ground, and 
fewed it with parfnep-feed in March.— 
Having weeded and thinned them to a pro- 
per diltance, when they were arrived to a 
good ftrength ‘of leaves, I cut, and gave 
them to the cows, calves, colts, hogs, and 
fheep, who eat them very readily. They 
oon fprouted again, and within a month 
T cut them a fecond time. I cut about 
half of them a third time ; but 28 the wea- 
ther continued very dry fox jome time, 
Ufe of Parfueps in fattening, — 5 
this lat appears to have been too much, 
as, upon taking up the roots, thofe which 
had been cut three times were not {0 large 
as the others. Had the weather been 
moift, I have reafon to believe they would 
have continued to increale in leaves and 
fize; however, I had a fair crop of roots; 
After each cutting I loofened the earth 
with a potatue-fork. The long taps and 
rough roots I boilin the copper with po- 
tatoe chatts, in the proportion of two 
bufhels of chatts, half a buthel of offal. 
parineps, having firft wafhed them— 
When they are boiled, fo as to break 
eafily, IT take them out as dry as I can, 
and put them into a tub. f then put 
about a_ peck of rye (having been coarlely 
ground in a malt mill) into the water re- 
maining in the copper, and let it boil till 
it thickens into a confiltency like unto 
fago, minding to ftir it frequently, to pre- 
vent it burning the copper. I fhould nave 
obferved, this p-ck of rye will take five 
or fix pails of water to reduce it to the 
above fublitance. I put this in another 
tub, and I feed the hogs with the potatoes 
and this gruel mixed; it will fatten large 
hogs fpeedily: the above proportions, 
which are as much as will fullice two 
hogs a week, may be placed at the fol-' 
lowing expence : 
1 peck of rye, PAS pai wait 
2 buthels chatts, Sa me 
Half buthel offa! parf- 
neps — 
Coals, or wood, oo 6 
A boy grinds the rye, wafhes 
potatoes, &c. attends the 
_ copper, éc. with eafe in 
half a day, fay (oo Mel 
I have put the chatts at the rate of 25s, 
per ton; but they are to be bought at 20s, 
or 6d per buthel. 
The bulk of leaves and ftalks of the 
parinep, cut in the above way, mutt be 
very ufeful upon a farge fcale, for cattle, 
&c. at the time the fields are fhut up ; all 
kinds of ftock will eat the roots raw, and 
thrive felt. I intend to try the fame me- 
thocs with carrots and white beet this 
enfuing feafon. If youthiok the above 
obfervations deferve your attention, they 
are refpecifully at your fervice. Iam, 
Sir, your’s, &c. W. D. 
White Webbs, Enfield, 
11th Fan. 1803. 
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