2S4 On the Uses of Sugar for fattenivg Cattle. 



probability of feeding live ^tock with sugar or molasses with 

 success r" 



" Whatever T know relative to this subject has been from 

 readinrr, and a very little personal inforn)ation from one or 

 two individuals ; and the whole is detailed in a paper, which 

 the president of the board ot aariculture informed nie he had 

 delivered in to the committee." *' Should it be found upon 

 txperience to answer, it seems to ofler a very considerable 

 irsaket for sugar ; for on the average of the last six years 

 Londim has consumed 1-2:3,000 oxen, and 8.27,000 sheep." 

 Catciilatins from the London consumption, he goes on to 

 show that if the use of sugar were general for feeding cattle, 

 the whole consumption of the kingdom, at 2 oz. for each 

 animal per day for six months, (which, at Ad. per pound, 

 would be only ^d. per day,) would amount to 140,000 hhds. 

 annually. *' Do you conceive the sugar would be nourish- 

 ing lo the cattle, from the bulk of the food, or merely by 

 asslsimg the nutriment derived from other substances ?" " I 

 do not apprehend that the bulk of any quantity of sugar that 

 could be given would be material in fattening a beast; but 

 the quality of the food I conceive to be so good, that it 

 would render other articles of nounsh-iient of a much more 

 fattening nature ; for mslancc, you could not fatten a beast 

 upon cut straw or bran, but with tb.e addition of a small 

 quantity of sugar, I should appl-ehcnd such an efltct might 

 take place." 



13th day of June I SOS. Lord Binning in the chair. 



Mr. Samuel Parkes called, and examined by the com- 

 jnittce. 



*' What is the business in whicli you are engaged r" ** A 

 ir)anu,facturing chemist." 



*' Have you made any experiments on the mixture of 

 different substances with sugar, so as lo prevent its being 

 used for domestic purposes, or for distillation, without in- 

 luring its nutritious qualities ?" "I have made many experi- 

 ments, the results of which I am ready to state to the com- 

 niittee." 



