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an account of his destent and education, 
his offices among the Jews, the occasion 
of his entering the missionary seminary 
at Berlin, his design in coming to this’ 
country, and his labours under the pa- 
tronage of the Missionary Society; to- 
gether with an explanation of the circum- 
stances which led to his separation from 
that society, and to his union with the 
London Society for promoting Christian- - 
ity among the Jews. Mr. Frey has also 
prepared an English-Hebrew Grammar. 
Mr. Berrour has in the press a me- 
trical romance in five cantos, entitled 
Spanish Heroism, or the Battles of Ronce- 
valles. 
The Rev. Mr. Ewrne, of Glasgow, will 
speedily publish, at the request of the 
London Missionary Society, Essays ad- 
dressed to the Jews, on the Authority, 
Seope, and Consummation, of the Law 
and the Prophets. 
Mr. Curwey, who ought to be known 
under the title of the Northern Patriot, 
has recently circulated the following Let- 
ter on the important subject of the culture 
of Potatoes. 
“ Workington-Hall, April 9, 1809. 
_ $¢Srr,—The improvement of our agricul- 
ture appears to me to be the most certain 
means of advancing the prosperity and happi- 
ness of the United Empire, and preserving to 
us the blessings we enjoy. I may be deemed 
visionary, bet I cannot disguise my opinion, 
that Great Britain, under a system of good 
agriculture, would be capable of supporting 
thirty millions of inhabitants. Nothing can 
contribute more to this desirable object than 
the general culture and use of Potatees. 
_ © The population of Workington is esti- 
mated at eight thousand, the weekly sale of 
potatoes during ten months of the year, ex- 
ceeds four thousand stone per week; to sup- 
ply this consumption requires nearly an hun- 
dred acres ; 1 am inclined to believe five times 
the number of acres would not, in any other 
mode of cropping, produce an equal quantity 
of food. In corroboration of this opinion, let 
us suppose five hundred acres of wheat, yield- 
ing twenty-four Winchesters, per acre, of 
60lbs. or six hundred thousand pounds of 
bread, equal to supplying four thousand per- 
sons with half a pound of bread ‘for three 
hundred days. The consumption then would 
be half a pound of bread to four pounds of 
potatoes. The comfort derived from the use 
of potatoes hy the working classes, affords @ 
most power! ‘ul argument in favour of their 
general introduction—no food is more nutri- 
tious, “hone so unive ersally palatable. The 
philanthropist anc politician will equally pro- 
mote theiriviews, by extending the use and 
culture uf the potatoe. 
«< For eight years past I have fed all my 
werking herses upon steam potatoes, mixed 
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with eut straw, and latterly I have with equal 
success given them to oxen. They would an- 
swer er milch cows, and fattening cattle, if 
they could be raised at less expence. My con- 
sumption fer eight months in the year is a ton 
and a half per day, or about three hundred and 
sixty tons annually—the saving in land, ir 
feeding with potatoes as a substitute for hay, 
is between 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 system ex- 
tends 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, tor horses is now applied to 
the purposes.of a dairy, and in the last year 
507,024 quarts of milk were sold, whereas ix 
1804, only 222,755. In years of scarcity 
the food of horses can be applied to the use 
of man.” .C, CurwEn.” 
Buiter.—Several specimens of Swedish 
Turnip Butter, from the dairy of Mr. 
Ives, of Catton, were exhibited at the 
principal inns in Norwich, om the 15tk 
of April ; and being placed onthe diner- 
tables at each house, gentlemen had 2 
fair opportunity afforded them of pro- 
ee a decided opinion upon its qua- 
mer 
Tt has afforded a. convincing proof, that 
turnips of all descriptions, do not univer- 
sally, 10 a greater or less degree, | injure 
the flavour of our milk and butter: te 
this assertion, the Swedish turnip is an 
exception, in a most decided point of view. 
It appears, that the management of 
these cows is most simple and easy—they 
are fed on hay, good oat-straw, and Swe- 
dish turnips; but it ought to be observed, 
that a degree of care and neatness is ne- 
cessary in preparing these turnips for 
them. In the first place, they are drawn 
about the end of February or beginning of 
‘March, laid in ridges or heaps of a load 
or two reach, and left on the land for two 
or three weeks; they are then carted 
away to some convenient place, their 
tops and tails cut off clean, and piled on 
a heap, where they are kept as free from 
soil or dirt as possible. 
tailing be done in a yard apart from that 
where the cows are fed; for should they 
eat any of the tops, this excellence of 
flavour in the milk and butter will be 
deteriorated considerably. The mede 
of preparing these turnips deserves parti- 
cular attention. The drawing them from 
the land at the time they are in their 
most compact state, then depriving 
them 
‘Itis adviseable , 
also, that the operation of topping and — 
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