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application of ſuch articles. It may be further neceſſary to ſtate, that from every twenty-threc buſhels(of 7olbs. weight) the uſual quantity ground at one time by family No. 2, there is taken out of bran 240lbs. from the whole quantity. The loſs of the mill is always reckoned 1½1b.

at every 7olbs, or 34 lbs. in the whole twenty-three buſhels. No bread from the baker,&c. is purchaſed in this family.

The uſe intended to be made by the preſent writer(a further inveſtigation being left to abler pens) from theſe ſtatements, betwixt the difference of conſumption in a northern and ſouthern county(a), and the exceſs of the latter, will be an endeavour to account for theſe extraordinary facts: and what cauſe more probable than the general uſe of the potatoe in Lancafhire, fince many people never eat bread along with their meat together with the potatoe; and fince the potatoe proves ſuch a ſaving of bread in its boiled ſtate, and a further ſaving when mixed up with flour and made up into the loaf, of what a national conſequence becomes a more extenſive cultivation and more general introduction!

To render this ſubject ſomewhat clearer, the three families have endea- voured to render a juſt eſtimate of the conſumption of the potatoe in each family; and from which computation appears the following reſult:

No. 1I. Fourteen conſume lbs. 9. 45 cach perſon weekly. N. B. There is generally an overplus in this family, which is given to the poultry or pigs.

No. 2. Ten conſume(not aſcertained) each weekly.

No. 3. Forty conſume 6 ¼lbs. cach weekly, at the preſent ſeaſon; be- cauſe when other vegetables, peaſe, beans,&c. are in ſeaſon, the conſump- tion of the potatoe is leſs. But between the family of ſeven, im the ſouth, and the family of forty in the north, there is a ſaving of nearly 4Albs. of wheat per head per weck, or 160lbs. in the forty in family per week. The value of which will be nearly as follows:

LA. 3. 4. 260lbs. potatoes, value—— d 7 o 160Ibs, wheat, preſent price, value— 1 7 0

Balance, or ſaving L. 1 0 0 .———

How greatly may this calculation be extended, when we take into the account that the potatoe affords two meals every day to many families of the labouring claſs, and that without the leaſt bread! Nay, there are many families in the northern counties who never eat bread, but what is con- ſumed at tea!

Walzon, May 15, 1795. JOHN HOLT. ſa) Hampſhire,