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The different ^sses, (of which hay is madie, both natural and" 

 artificial, have been proved by chemical analysis, as well as by the 

 experience of the fact, to contain nutritious principles in considerable, 

 though various, proportions, and the practice of soiling working^ 

 Horses in stables, has been proTcd by Mr. Curvven, of the Skoose 

 Farm in Cumberland, and many other practical agriculturists, to be 

 highly economical. Along with the other nutritious matter, contained 

 in gmsses. Sugar is found in considerable quantity, and as this sub- 

 stance is known to contain more nourishment than perhaps any other 

 production of nature, in the same bulk, it certainly becomes a great 

 object to cultivate those grasses which are found to contain the greatest 

 proportion of it, in preference to others. But, besides giving a 

 preference to those grasses which are found by chemical analysis to 

 yield the greatest quantity of Sugar, there is good reason for believ- 

 ing that Saccharine matter is developed in the process of making hay, 

 and, for this reason, it would be well if chemical Philosophers would 

 4urn their attention to this branch of Rural Economy, and furnish 

 the practical farmer with some certain data, which might guide him. 

 in the management of this important department of his business. 



For, 1 think there can be no doubt that the practice which prevails 

 generally in England, and so little in this country, of encouraging a 

 certain degree of fermentation, in the stack, must operate upon the 

 same principle as the process of Malting, and develop more Saccha- 

 rine matter, than would otherwise be found in the same quantity of 

 hay, made without being subjected to any fermentation. 



Now, this circumstance of the great quantity of nourishment con- 

 tained in Sugar, did not escape the sagacious observations of that 

 incomparable Anatomist the late Mr. Hunter. And it is a notorious 



