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 * style="padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; text-indent:-1em; width: 15em"|Results of the Analysis of a Sample of Vegetable Juice, received from Mr., of Belfast.
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 * align="center"|PER CENTAGE COMPOSITION.
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 * style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent:-1em; padding-right: 1em"|Containing 2.76 Grains of Nitrogen, equal to 17.66 Grains of Albuminous Matter.
 * style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent:-1em"|Containing 7.19 Grains of Nitrogen, equal to 46.02 Grains of Albuminous Matter.
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 * style="padding-left: 1em; text-indent:-1em; padding-right: 1em"|Containing 2.76 Grains of Nitrogen, equal to 17.66 Grains of Albuminous Matter.
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Then the next step was to test the invention practically. I put up here in Belfast an experimental factory; I extracted 120 gallons of juice out of each ton of tubers, containing the whole flesh-forming matters of the plant; rasped up the compressed solid matters; separated rather more starch than is obtained by the usual processes, and I had then remaining that which is now lost—to wit, the 120 gallons of juice, and the pulp or raspings, which always contain a considerable quantity of starch, and which forms little mountains at all the potato starch manufactories. These two lost products, the juice and pulp, I mixed together, adding the necessary quantity of stilt, and used as cattle food; and I found, as was to be expected, that it formed a food which they preferred to almost any other which could be given to them.