On coarse Flour ^ ^c. 



Kiln dried grain is the least nutritious, probably be- 

 cause the oil and animalized matter are detached, by a 

 degree of combustion, in the operation. This process 

 is said to be indispensable, to fit Indian corn meal for 

 exportation; but this does not prove its salubrity. Let 

 swine be fed with indian com meal thus prepared, a.nd 

 those who make the experiment will not attempt it again. 

 Any kiln drying dissipates the oil and vegeto-animal 

 matter, in a greater or less degree ; but if carried no far- 

 ther than merely to destroy its vegetating principles, it 

 is said not to injure its alimentary qualities. 



Lord Dundonald recommends malting the grain on 

 which horses are fed ; to form and fix the saccharine 

 CjUality. 



Colonel Koxvatch^ who, in our service, commanded 

 the infantry of FiilasHs legion, had been an old parti- 

 zan officer, in the north of Europe ; and had command- 

 ed a large corps of irregular horse, — either Cossacks, 

 Croats, or Pandours. He fled hither, after the troubles 

 of Poland. He told me, that they often baked th^ chop- 

 ped or ground grain, for their horses j having previously- 

 formed it into portable cakes. It was fermented, or 

 raised, in an expeditious and simple way, by a kind of 

 leven. With this, they sometimes used oil cakes. He 

 said baked provender went twice as far as raw" meal, or 

 grain. The saccharine quality was, no doubt, produc- 

 ed by this process; and its alimentary properties en- 



ihe same diseases by a like change of diet. The rations of 

 fresh meat, were exchanged with the farmers, for salt pork 

 und bacon* 



