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points for the extraction of nutriment, to the maceration 

 of the liquids in, and the action of, the stomach, or sto- 

 m ehs, of animals. And no provender, is waited, as 

 it is by feeding entire; either by negligence in servants, or 

 us- ! ssiy passing through the viscera, 1 have strong hopes, 

 that the pracdee or chaffing, will be \ great relief in 

 this season of comp >r ttive scarcity. We are so much 

 ac<. ustomed to abundance ; that we have never studied or 

 practised the economy, which necessity enforces. Three 

 bushels of my chaffed hay, weigh a stone, fourteen 

 pounds, and this is enough for a horse, with a common 

 allowance of oats or chopped grain, for twenty-four 

 hours. Vi ry little more will be sufficient for a horse 

 standing idle, without other feed. Mr. Jones saves more 

 than the wages of a man, in a year, viz : more than seven 

 tons of hay, in the keep of his four horses; for I allow 

 five-hundred pounds of hay, including w r aste, to keep a 

 horse for a month. In the common and careless manner 

 of feeding, this quantity will not do it. So that, in an 

 extensive concern, a farmer would be well paid, by keep- 

 frig a hand exclusively for chaffing his long provender. 

 And yet I believe, that on common farms, his time 

 would not be half occupied, in this employment A man 

 and a boy can cut, with Hotchkiss's cutter, in forty or 

 fifty minutes, as much ha) , and more straw; as will serve 

 six horses, and^ fourteen or fifteen cows for the day and 

 night. This has been proved, by actual experiment, 

 other cm y, as Mr; Jones affirms, do more in the 



same time, (and I do not know I y can) nut the la- 



bourer, at others, is exhausteci to prostration, whilst one at 

 Hotchkiss's oes his work with ease. This has been tried. 

 But one to feed, and one to turn the winch, will do the 



