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weeks they are fit for the market. At this time, if the farmer wiſhes i, the paſture can be reſerved for hay; or if that is not judged proper for the land, another ſet of beaſts can be put on, which will be ready by Mid-

ſummer. The paſture may then be ſpared till the latter end of autumn, when the fog will be found rank and good, and may be employed either in feeding off another ſet, or in preparing ſuch as are to be fed upon turnips through the winter.

By this plan every feeder has it in his power'to turn off three ſets of cattle yearly, in place of one; merely by giving the ſtock intended to be fed through the ſummer a moderate allowance of Nams, or any other kind of potatoe, in addition to their ſtraw, during the preceding winter. This practice, and the advantages arifing from it, when contraſted with the ordinary way of turning out lean winterers to graſs in the ſpring, and the Poor returns that are made by doing ſo, will, it is hoped, operate with every man of ſenſe as a fufficient inducement to make him attend to the culti- vation of potatoes for this purpoſe.

Fer Milch Cous. For this ſpecies of ſtock every kind of potatoe will be found an excellent winter food, as they are not only calculated to keep the cows in good heart, but tend greatly to increaſe the quantity of milk. This laſt is a matter of high importance in the vicinity of great towns, where there is a conſtant demand for the produce of the dairy, and where every article of that produce ſells at a high price during the winter. It has for ſome years been cuſtomary to feed milch cows in great towns upon cabbages and turnips during the winter; but the rank diſagreeable flavour which they communicate to the milk, is a very conſiderable drawback upon this kind of feeding. Every ſpecies of potatoes is in a great meaſure free from this, even in their raw ſtate; but when boiled, they are completely ſo.

To the inhabitants of great towns, and to perſons renting land in their immediate neighbourhood, the introduction of this kind of feeding will be found a matter both of comfort and emolument; it will contribute to ren- der milk and butter plenty during the winter months, and will conſiderably increaſe the value of property in theſe fituations.

For faeding f Hogs. Hitherto the uſe of potatoes in the feeding of hogs has been either neglected or improperly underftood. Till within theſe feur years, it has been cuſtomary to give them entirely raw. This mode of feed- ing, though it will keep the animals in tolerably good condition, will not fatten them; but when the potatoes are boiled, a much fſmaller quantity than is commonly given raw will be found ſufficient to render them fit for the butchers. Their fattening is much haſtened by mixing a fmall quan- tity of any aſtringent fubſtance amongſt the potatoes, eſpecially if they ſhow the leaſt tendency to purging. Avery cheap and efficacious remedy- for this purpoſe will be found in the Amenian Bole: an carth which Poſſeſſes