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grade of perhaps the best middlings, all the other and 

 extra manufacture is to gratify prejudice of education, 

 and habit. It is questionable whether those who value 

 themselves on being '■'■ sworn at High gate'''' gain, in this 

 over refined gratification, any solid advantages. I am 

 well aware that nothing I can say, will induce them to 

 violate their oath. 



The old king oi Pi'iissia'' s soldiers ate, on a campaign, 

 little of any thing farinaceous, except ammunition bread. 

 Tliis was made of the grain triturated or ground, but not 

 bolted ; being passed through hand sieves, which de- 

 tached no great proportion of the coat of the grain. 

 The Dutch sailors were supplied with such bread ; and 

 chiefly made of rye^i Since our flour mills have gain- 

 better. But sour food is the most grateful and alimentary to 

 swine. One gallon of sour zvash goes farther than two of 

 sweet. -Z^ry rotten xvood should be constantly in the pen ; 

 that the hogs, when confined lor fatting, may eat it at plea- 

 sure. Nature points out this absorbent (or whatever it may 

 be) as a remedy or preventive. They will leave their food 

 to devour the rotten wood, when they require it. I have not 

 lost a fatting hog for more than 30 years, when I used it ; 

 but have suffered by neglecting it. Some of my neighbours 

 met with frequent losses of fatting hogs, till I informed them 

 of my practice ; of which I was told by a woman from East 

 yersey, before our revolutionary war. She said it was then 

 known and practised there. 



^ Although the Dutch ship bread is, in appearance dis- 

 gusting, yet I risque the disapprobation of those of better 

 taste, by saying that it is by no means so to the palate, if ate 

 without prejudice ; as it is by those for whose use it is made. 

 A ludicrous accident (which I relate meo pericidoj made 



