On (he Uses of Sugar for fattening Catile, 233 



The iritncss here read^ and afterivards, on the Idth if 

 June, delivered in to the coimnittee the following statement : 



" When I was intornied of your inquiries respecting the 

 possibility of rendering siiffar unfit tor common use, with- 

 out destroyino; its nutritious properties, and received your 

 requisition to engage in the investigation of the subject, I 

 lost no time in instituting such a series of experiments as I 

 conceived would be necessary to ascertain the fact. 



" This being entirely new ground, no chemist having 

 ever engag;eJ in such an undertaking that we know of, I 

 made a great number of experiments, the chiet ot which £ 

 will endeavour to describe, and their results, with as much 

 brevity as the nature of the subject will permit. 



** Interwoven with these details you will perceive an ac- 

 count of some facts already known to chemists; but I was 

 desirous of furnishing you with every thing of importance 

 on the subject. To th.is end [ have examined a large body 

 of chemistry with great care, and I hope no work has escaped 

 me that would have thrown any light upon the inquiries iu 

 which you are ensiaged. 



" Sugar is said to contain more nutriment in the same 

 bulk than any other known substance *; but how to allow 

 its use duly free for the purpose of feeding cattle, and at the 

 same time guard against anvencroachn)ent upon the revenue 

 now arising from it, may be attended with considerable dif- 

 ficulties. 



" The chief difficulty, in my estimation, arises from the 

 soluble nature of sugar; for, if sugar-be mixed with ground 

 corn, barley meal, or other farinaceous matter, which it 

 njight be in the presence of an excise otficer, there would 

 be danger of its afterwards being washed out by means of 

 water, the water evaporated, and the sugar brought again 

 into the market. 



" One pound of water is capable of dissolving one pound 

 of sugar. Lime- water renders sugar still more soluble, and 

 (.teprives it of a part of its sweetness ; but as water takes up 

 yj small a portion of lime, (300 parts of water dissolving only 



• See tLc papers of Dr. Rush, of Philadelphia, on this subject. 



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