S94 On the Uses of Sugar for fattening Cattle. 



Or a mixture of damaged barley meal, oatmeal, damaged, 

 flour, rape cake, or linseed cake niiglu be made, and then 

 baked with sugar into bread. This would form a kind of 

 gingerbread, with which cattle might be fed very cheaply. 

 The trial perhaps might be made at his majesty's bakehouse 

 at Deptford. A large quantity of the different kinds of 

 damaged meal is annually baked in London into what is 

 called dog-bread, for kennels, &c. The bakers of that 

 would easily come into the way of baking this also. Horses 

 at sea will eat ship biscuit ; this is well known to mariners. 

 Should there be any difiicultv in getting cattle to eat this new 

 kind of sweet bread, it might at first be ground for them. 



*' I have been induced to suggest this method of using 

 sugar for cattle, and some others mentioned above, because 

 I conceive it would be a desirable thing, should government 

 give sugar to farmers free of duty, to allow them an option 

 in the articles to be employed for the deterioration of tl>€ 

 sugar. This would tend to bring feeders of cattle sooner 

 into the general use of it, and indeed different localities may 

 perhaps require something of the kind, in order to occasion 

 a general consumption. 



" As for charcoal, I am inclined to think that it could not 

 be employed for such a purpose, for the following reasons : 



*' 1st. Before charcoal could be so used, it must be finely 

 levio-atcd, and levigated charcoal cannot be had but at a con- 

 siderable expense. 



*' 2d. I apprehend that charcoal cannot afford any nutri- 

 nient to cattle, and thai probably il would be prejudicial to 

 the animal oeconomy. 



" 3d. The mixture of charcoal with sugar, T imagine, 

 would not prevent that sugar from being afterwards fraudu- 

 lently used for the si ill, for it is a common practice with 

 Kctifiers to mix charcoal with coars* spirit, this being found 

 to improve its flavour. 



*' 4th Charcoal being mixed with sugar, could never 

 prevent the use of the sugar for general consumption; for 

 this substance might be separated with the greatest ease. All 

 that would be necessary would be to dissolve the sugar in 

 water, and separate the charcoal hy filtration. 



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