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Other parts of the country, where the insect or mil¬ 
dew has not extended. 
Albany^ March 1807. 
LETTER 
FROM R. R. Livingston to Dr. B. De Witt. 
Clermont, 7ih April, 1807. 
Dear sir, 
HE following piece of farming intelligence ap¬ 
pears to me sufficiently important to deserve a place 
in our work, 
Mr. Smadis, a respectable farmer at Rhinebeck, 
told me, that he had kept all his hogs in good or¬ 
der this year, upon no other food than clover hay. 
The hay was cut, and then boiled, and given with 
the liquor in which it was boiled, to his hogs. It 
may be proper to mention, that his hay is preserv¬ 
ed by being salted ; a quart of salt to a load of hay. 
His mode of making the hay, is, to cut it and leave 
it in wind rows about six hours, then to put it in 
small cocks ; the next day about noon to open the 
cocks, and before night to ride it home, and sprin¬ 
kle it with salt, in the proportion I have mention¬ 
ed, which he says keeps it green and juicy all the 
year. He took the hint, be says, for feeding his 
hogs in this way, from a poor former in Ulster, who 
