On the Uses of Sugar for fattening Cattle. 293 



gland, I am told, is now feeding by Lord Talbot in Stafford- 

 shire, and that a part of his food is treacle. Horses, oxen, 

 and sheep, prefer the sweetest vegetables, and thrive best 

 with sncii food. Hence the Swedish turnip, now so oene- 

 raliy cultivated, is preferred to the old sorts, the Swedish 

 containing one-fourth more sugar. 



" There arc many testimonies on record to the nutritious 

 properties of sugar. Mons. Lennes, first surgeon to the late 

 duke of Orleans, relates the following circumstance : 'A 

 vessel,' said he, ' laden with sutrar, bound from the West 

 Indies, was becalmed for several days on her passage, during 

 which the stock of provisions was exhausted. Some of 

 the crew were dying with the scurvy, and the rest were 

 threatened with death by famine. In this emergency recourse 

 was had to the sugar. The consequence was, the symptoms 

 of the scurvy went off, the crew found it a wholesome and 

 eubstaniial aliment, and returned in good health to France.' 



'•' It is related, that sugar given alone, was found to fat- 

 ten horses and cattle, during the war before last in St. Do- 

 mingo, for a period of several months, in which the expor- 

 tation of sugar and importation of grain were prevented by 

 the want of ships. 



" According to Dr. Rush, sugar has the most favourable 

 effect on the animal oeconomy ; and that eminent physician. 

 Sir John Pringle, remarked, that the plague has never been 

 known in any country, where sugar composes a material 

 pan of the diet of the inhabitants. 



" Sugar has this advantage over most kinds of aliment, 

 that it is not liable to have its nutritious qualities affected 

 by time or weather; hence it is preferred by the Indians in 

 their excursions from home. They mix maple sugar with 

 an equal quantity of ground Indian corn, and pack the mix- 

 ture in little baskets, which frequently get wet in travelling, 

 without ever injuring the sugar. A few spoonfuls of this 

 rnixlure, in half a pint of water, afford them a pleasant and 

 strengthening meal. 



" Another way of using sugar for cattle has occurred to 

 me: that is, to mix it with various kinds of damaged meal, 

 6uch meal as wnild be totally unfit for human consumption. 



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