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Isaac C. Jones' Communication to Richard Peters, 

 President of the Philadelphia Agricultural Society. 



Read March 11, 1817. 



Philadelphia 3d mo. March 1st, 1817. 

 Respected Friend, 



In my letter of the 17th ultimo in answer to thine of 

 the 8th, I stated the quantity of chaffed hay I was in the 

 practice of giving to a horse or a cow ; viz. two bush- 

 els to each in the 24 hours; amounting to from 15 to 

 15| pounds. I ought to have mentioned that the chaff 

 given to my horned cattle, is not confined to hay merely; 

 but most generally to a composition, consisting of an in- 

 termixture with hay, of a portion of wheat and rye straw, 

 as also the tops of corn stalks, including the blades and 

 husks. Two bushels of this mixture I am generally 

 in the practice of giving, instead of hay alone, as might 

 have been inferred from mine of the 17th above-mention- 

 ed ; I have therefore thought, it would be as well, to o;ive 

 this explanation. I am about experimenting further on 

 this subject ; by reducing the quantity of chaffed hay, giv- 

 en to each horse, from 15 down to 12 pounds per day. I 

 commenced on two ofmv horses from 8 to lOdavs back, 

 in order to see how it will operate. I am much obliged by 

 thy offer of some seed of the scarcity root. I last year 



