Oil grinding Maize in the Cob, £s?<?. 397 



county, Pennsylvania. I was so fully persuaded of 

 the utility of the practice, that I wished to profit by it, 

 and endeavoured to persuade a miller in Delaware 

 county, near to where I had a farming interest, to erect 

 one, but without avail. His scruples arose from an 

 apprehension of an insinuation on the part of some 

 people, that he would mix the meal of the corn and 

 cob with his wheat flower, and he well knew that the 

 mere suggestion of such a practice might prove inju- 

 rious to his reputation. 



Indian corn is of itself too nourishing, and too heat- 

 ing as a constant article of diet for horses, and if fed 

 alone, a sufficient quantity cannot be given to them to 

 produce the stimulus of distension, (which is as neces- 

 sary for a working horse, or even to man, as nourish- 

 ment,) without great expense, and at the same time 

 endangering the health of the animal. Corn meal is 

 therefore mixed with a portion of cut straw, and coarse- 

 ly ground rye, or shorts, and in this state constitutes 

 the daily food of that fine body of draught horses that 

 do so much credit to our draymen and carters of Phi- 

 ladelphia, and the industrious farmers of the state at 

 large. 



The powder of the corn cobs, however, does not act 

 entirely by distension : it also contains much nutri- 

 ment, and I have heard.of a poor woman in Maryland, 

 who prepared during the winter, a very grateful daily 

 mess for her cow, by boiling the bruised cobs with 

 which she was furnished by her wealthy neighbours ; 

 with this liquor, mixed with what other vegetable mat- 

 ters she could procure, and a few corn blades, she 



