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in a shed to eat the corn in ; but, having for 

 companions about the yard, a troop of hogs fat- 

 ting, and becoming very fat upon the results of the 

 imperfect digestion. Sheep digest the whole 

 completely. I do not, however, recommend this 

 mode of fatting oxen or hogs ; I never saw it but 

 once, and that was at a Mr. Taylor's, in Penn- 

 sylvania. I thought it nasty, and I told him 

 so. If people in America desire to have prize 

 oxen, they finish the fatting of them on 

 corn-meal, which they put into the mangers 

 in the same manner that we put barley-meal; 

 and the fattest oxen that ever were seen, I 

 believe, in any part of the world, famous old 

 England not excepted, have been killed in Phil- 

 adelphia. There was one killed there, in the 

 winter of 1818, mention of which is, I believe (for 

 I have not at this moment a copy of the book) 

 made in the Year's Residence, which surpassed, 

 in point of fatness, any ox ever seen in England 

 in our times at least. He was fatted by a Quaker, 

 in the Western part of New Jersey ; and, they 

 did say, that Eeenezer actually sat up a-nights 

 with him, for the last two months before he was 

 killed. I forget the enormous price that the 

 beef was sold at, after great sums had been 

 made by exhibiting the ox as a show. This ox 

 was fatted upon corn-meal, towards the latter 

 part of the time; and, whoever has a mind for 



