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conſiderable aſtringent powers, and which has no diſagreeable taſte. Even a little allum in powder may be mixed with their food; and from the Elceäble acidity which it communicates, will make them eat it with reliſh.

For Fouwwls. Boiled potatoes are found an excellent food for fowls of almoſt every deſcription, with a ſmall mixture of bran or oatmeal. By adopting the uſe of them for this purpoſe, a conſiderable quantity of grain may be ſaved, not only in the maintenance of the preſent ſtock, but double the number may be kept, and made fit for the market, at leſs ex- pence than the preſent ſinall ſtock that is reared.

Some may be diſpoſed to think the benefit ariſing from this ſubſtitute for the feeding of fowls a matter of little importance; and in ſome fitu- ations this may really be the caſe; but when it is taken upon a broad ſcale, and the quantity of grain that is conſumed over the whole kingdom, for this purpoſe alone, is conſidered, the aggregate will be found to be great indeed. But when to this advantage is added the benefit ariſing from feeding double, or even more than double, the number at leſs expence, it will then appear a matter of ſerious confideration.

A Feood for Dogs. The number of dogs kept in the iſland is conſiderable, and the quantity of food employed in ſupporting them very great. The articles chiefly made uſe of for this purpoſe are oatmeal and the coarſer parts of butchers meat. Theſe are not only expenſive articles, but a conſiderable quantity of human food is waſted in this way, eſpecially where large packs of fox or hare-hounds are kept. Even pointers and greyhounds conſume an immenſe deal of meal and other articles.

As a fubſtitute for theſe, potatoes may be employed; and from experience we are enabled to ſay, that they will anſwer this purpoſe very completely. Some preparation, however, is neceſſary to make them palatable: they ought to be boiled to a pulp, with the addition of a ſmall quantity either of coarſe fat or ſalt butter, which will at firſt be an inducement for the dogs to eat them; it may afterwards be withdrawn by degrees, and they will then eat them readily, without any addition whatever.

To render them completely uſeful in this way, they ſhould firſt be tho- roughly boiled, and afterwards hafhed down amongſt boiling water, taking. care to incorporate them with the water till they attain the conſiſtence of thin. ſtarch, when the dogs will lick them without the ſmalleſt difficulty. With this feeding, with the addition of ox-livers, and occafionally of horſe-fleſh

boiled along with the potatoes, they may be kept both in good fleſh ancd

wind, at one-fourth of the expence which trained dogs generally coſt. Theſe are not merely ſpeculative opinions; the author of the preſent memoir has employed them himſelf in ſeveral of the inſtances he has men-

noned, and has known them ſucceſsfully employed by others in all of them: