whole population, and would require the produce of between eighty and ninety acres. Potatoes have this year risen to 6d. per stone, which makes an advance of 8881., and in all probability would have been at 9d. and Is., but from the large quantity grown for my horses, which are now applied solely as food for man. Potatoes, with milk and bread, form an admirable diet for children. The most important of all the acquirements obtained from a knowledge of the new world, are potatoes; and the comfort and benefit of them is daily extending, as well in this as in every other country. In Flanders, thirty years ago, the very poorest of the people would not eat potatoes. Being resident in a large town in that country for some time, I desired potatoes to form a part of meal; finding my orders constantly disobeyed, I was led to enquire how it happened; the cook who supplied my table, insisted they were always sent; on a further investigation, it was found the good lady of the house constantly intercepted them, insisting they were not food for "un homme comme il faut," and I lost all consequence and respect in her opinion, from my perseverance in insisting upon having them, in future, served at table. every September 24th, 1807. FROM a mixture of the whole of the milk of three cows, fed with part clover and part fog, or after grass, 70 ale quarts of milk produced 107 ounces of butter, the the cream from a lead. The trial I made a former year was, I believe, 16 ale quarts of milk to 16 ounces of butter nearly, the cream being produced in the vessels of common earthen ware. It may be necessary to observe that these trials were from two of the same cows, and one different. W. SWINBURNE. To. J. C. CURWEN, Esa. Workington Hall. This is nearly 11 quarts of milk to one pound of butter. SIR, Workington Hall Mills, Nov. 13, 1907. At your request, I have this day examined my milk book, and find that the two winter cows, for four months, averaged 144 quarts of milk per day, from January to May; and that three summer ones averaged 16 quarts per diem from May to November, 6 months-from, SIR, Keswick, 21st Sept. 1807. Agreeable to your request, I transmit an account of the expenditure of the clover, and the produce of the dairy; not having your queries in writing, I have been under the necessity of trusting to memory, but think I have not omitted any thing material. I was at first surprised to find the quantity of cream and blue milk conjointly exceeded the new milk itself; but, on repeating the experiment, I find this really is the fact, and in the proportion of about 18 to 17; but, as the union of the cream with the milk is a chemical, not a mechanical combination, should any one object to the accuracy of the experiments, that the parts are greater than the whole, I must appeal from the laws of mathematics to those of chemistry. Weight of crop = 67 × 704690 stone 29.3125 ton Weight per acre 29.3125 +2.5 11.725 ton Exclusive of after-grass, which may be depastured on the ground; but I fear the early season at which the frosts have commenced, will prevent a fourth cutting, which I once expected. One week's produce of five* Cows, viz. from 11th to 17th September. Produce of blue milk in curd, previous to pressure 1 10 15 quarts appear to be taken to make a pound of butter. *The milk of the sixth, a winter calver, was reserved for the use of the family. Workington, Workington, Jan. 11th, 1808. SIR, It is with great pleasure I inform you of my observation on the benefits resulting from your plan of supplying this town with genuine new milk from your farm twice a day, particularly in the winter. It is sensibly felt by those who have young families. A few years since, in the winters, the supplies were so scanty, that interest was made with the seller to obtain a small quantity two or three times a week; the demands were so great, that they could only get it in rotation. In consequence, the situation of the children of the lower order was miserable; their breakfasts consisted of tea, mixed barley-bread, made with leaven, perhaps the most improper food for them, sometimes oatmeal porridge, with a small quantity of molasses, butter being so dear that they could not obtain it. Your abundant supply of the most proper aliment for them demands the utmost gratitude from the inhabitants in general, and with the utmost satisfaction I repeat the good effects I have remarked in the general health of the children in this town, where milk has been used in preference to other food. I do assure you this description is not meant in compliment, but from a conviction of the utility of your plan. I consider myself interested in the continuance of it, and hope it may be continued, not merely from emolu |