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as the most importuiu point. She furnishes nourishment, fuel, 

 clothing, and the first materials for every thing. Population 

 is created by agriculture, which gives subsistence to all without 

 exception — to the farmer and the workman, as well as to the 

 merchant." 



20/A November, 1812. 



On the Use of Hay Tea in feeding Hogs. 



The use of hay-tea, in the fee ing of hogs, has been attempted 

 by Mr. Saunders, of Stroud, (jiouc.-stersh i-e, with much success. 

 He was led to the use of this liqni<! from considering its effects 

 in wf'oning calves. In his experisnents, as stated in the Agricul- 

 tural M;i"azine, the sorts o^hay made u^e of, were clover, sainfoin, 

 and lucern ;* and he thickened the tea or wash indiscriminately, 

 with either grains, or bran, or pollard, or any kind of meal, or 

 boiled cabbages, or boiled potatoes (carrots, though excellent, he 

 had none ) sometimes adding two or more of these articles, as his 

 stock of either most enabled him. And he had the greatest 

 sati<5faction to tind, that he made a single sack of boiled potatoes, 

 when mixed with wash, and without any other ingredient, go as 

 far as four or five sacks, (though boiled) when he gave them to 

 the pi;4s alone ; and the expense of the wash thickened with 

 potatoes, is considerably lower than potatoes alone. With the 

 view of showing the practicability of prosecuting the plan indi- 

 vidually upon a larger scale, he gradually increased his stock to 

 upwards of four hundred ; and in the course of his experiments, 



• The wire-grass has been used with success, at Long Wood, in rearing calves : and 

 appears equal to any other grass for the purpose recommended. K. 



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