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tion is a novelty and no doubt a pleasure to them ; and I 

 think it makes the fat the more solid. 



If you think this communication will be worthy of 

 the notice of the society, please to lay it before them ; 

 but if not, let it remain entre nous, and believe me with 

 great respect and esteem, 



Dear Sir 



Your most obedient, 



J. P. De Gruchy.^ 



Hon. Richard Peters Esq. 



President Agric. Soc, Philad. 



* My experience has uniformly been favourable to the sour 

 wash (not acetous) both for health and economy ; much less 

 grain or meal will suffice ; and its fermentation with water 

 fixes the saccharine quality, so essential to nutrition. Salt 

 is often given. I never pen my hogs in hot weather. Mr. 

 D. G. is on a great scale ; and must do it. His still wash 

 may require to be sweet ; under the circumstances in which 

 his swine are placed. His chopped grain has undergone fer- 

 mentation, before distillation ; and I know his intelligence on 

 the subject. In summer my hogs chiefly run on clover. Swine 

 feeding on clover in the fields, will thrive wonderfully ; when 

 those (confined or not) fed on cut clover, will fall away. My 

 use of rotten wood, continues to answer every purpose intend- 

 ed by its being given. I am much gratified, by the information 

 that there are other substances answering, the same end. 



R. Peters. 



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