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‘< butter and cheese; this has induced me to make the ex- *< periment of a guinea’s worth of new milk, at a penny a “< quart, which when made into butter and cheese, produced “<< only 1gs. 4d.; although had the skim milk been sold at one «< halfpenny per quart, it would have produced 235.; the cows «* were at grass, and it was summer cream.

““In the management of workhouses(poor-houses, so called) great abuses prevail. In such houses old people ‘and children ought to eat milk twice a day, and cows should be kept for that purpose, to lessen the enormous consumption of butchers’ meat and beer in such houses.

FEEDING OF HOGS.

“fam well convinced from observations which I have

‘* made, that these animals are often reared and fatted at the “« expence of 8d. per lb.; and yet the pork sold out at 4id. “‘ or sd.; some cheaper mode of feeding them should there- “« fore certainly be adopted, I beg leave therefore to suggest the following for consideration and for trial. ‘* Butchers sometimes give bullocks’ and sheep’s blood to their hogs; would it not be much more eligible to mix a “certain proportion of vegetable food therein, such as boiled potatoes, turnips, ground oats, and barley? Linseed is also of a very nutritious quality, and should be tried, boiled up in propera quantity of water, and thickened with any of the aforenamed vegetable substances. Fat meat of any kind, as it contributes to the fattening of the human creation, should by analogy have the same effect on infe- rior animals; tallow boiled away in water, and made into a stir-pudding with ground oats, barley,&c. I think merits ‘© trial.

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