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of the oil, op em/}r trttoSc fee "housth ohl
pose's ; but the flavour is so grateful, that it is very
probeble otttle would net it with greeilitu.ss. Four
pounds of pales oii, which, ou aitai (n age, 00., Id cost
2e4d, would be rollicieut to prvitare loot. oe sit-

Pr.
There is, hiltive.vr, anuther MI that would coupe
match cheaper, witch usight moldy be mixed with
sugar, though I have *unit doubts whether cattle
could be brough. to eat any food with which it was
witted. What 1,• refer to is animal oil, or oil of
it single dro,i of oil of hartshorn was carefully
*sized with VA Valais of Taw sugar (a propertied
of half a pouts l of oil to Icwt. of maim") and wit
found more to to 61111'16mA to spoil it, both is tittle
mod smell, fo cominou cs,-. if, however, calk
would cat s t „As' iu;•.eri ii 'a this article; nottiag
coald be cite yer, fur one pc iniy-worth woultise
ettough.for -wt. of sugar: and it is not varies.
Wetly but th .t they might he brought to eat it; fbir
it is well k avail titat at first oh cattle refuebosil
cake, and a: te yards eat it with great rehabs.;
Since I en4aged in this itiquiry I have been in-
formed that cattle will eat ratted ti4i oil with avi-
dity if so, such oil, sod especially the dregs, of
oils usually called oil foot, which conic very cheap,
might Ise put into the hogsheads of sugar at the
West I .ilia Ducks. .in the presence of an Officer.
and if "see poured en sugar, uo summon expense
wool ever be able to separate it. Linseed oil,
Lehi: more fluid might be poured into the hog's-
ea aat the'aina holes. This would' so spread it-
lf throughout tlit whole liogsliesii,,that 1 um per.
t:a led the sugar could uever .aftiewards be used',
for any domestic purpose. Moreover, it is *dß
ka t cis that sugar, wheu wixed with oil, is inompi- •
Us ~,tt• the visits's fermentation ; this would be du.
:diisecurityleginid.a franddetit use alt.; '
S itr.hur of potadi or wide has the property of
comeliest 1411#,11T into a tuni ihig itoas reihstanee,
not unlike gum./ 'Mucilage .a•el, sugar bitt
o
higl ly nutritive, Isn't thee diger to the
part pertigs. Sugir is soluble. udt only in slater, {psi'
in alcohol : mucilage is soluble in water, but iosco-
huh eiu alcoh -I. Sugar is ass essential iugneilieut
in all vinous fertneutatiou ; mucilage-is incapable of

that process.
Ia order to ascertain the expense of treating sit
gar with alk...'hue sulphuret, I mixed 14 grams
of dry sulphuret of potash witn 112 grain. orsvear.
The mixture soon Weenie elaicaly, and 13,4 ell
flavour of flamer., If a sulphuret of putas'i v ert
usnotiticistred directly for this purpwc, a suiCieut
quantity for noising with lest. of sugar wool.' cost
neer Ile. but I apprelieud there are .ointnoe arks.
rose twilkiurets which might Ise had cheap r. (nigh,
ff the cattle would not rilose the usixtiire. lee-
*net 44 the nature of this mixture, or toe nutri-
tious of sugar. when mho ea by ea nikelide
sultili.uret, it nowt be rerdititen, that .-ilage is
%Tr; some of Its properties to tts:,at , fih
P oil, "loots which yield sinew et a reitaiii perio
prtheir growth, old!, contain olueilaze at au earlier
pa ed. This is the ease wild to-vend it our wall
trona. In we operation of snaking, tbeinueilitite
of 1.1.11 burley absorna oxygen, anti is converted into
sugar. -Pip chemical wrens, howeicr, hove yet been
dtscomPred of el*cting the same purpirw.. W.
eau, all you lease 001.11, readily convert sa.isir
lute
mucilage, Inn have not yet acquired the omits re
reoreuerrting sugar front the same mucilage. Thi.
citcwww.tance is in favour of adopting this meirwel
fur the deterionition of sugar, if it should be foam;
agree with the cattle.
flaving nioisten;d 1111 god its of sugar with writer,
two drops at a volution of sulphate of iron, and too
drops of tincture were mixed with the
mass ; by exposure to the
.air this sti4ar because
quite black. and tasted off' areal very strongly. It
would cost Is. per cwt. to 'blacken tinit
way ; but as oak hark, or any other stilsistance that
continuos the genic acid, ir.ight be ettiployed in.Aend
of gulls. it could.bc done in quantities ut feel ex-
penSe..end I know of no cheep tuethoil by which su-
;par thnstretted could be rendered again tit fur sale
-or conauipit use. Indeed, if tilt Katlic *cid were
aritrodialfroin the ;collate of iron by means of pot-
t*"`sviger might then be fermented and frau-
eoily-loped for me stilt ; but this could not be
ii4iceted.to succeed, unless it were done by an ev-
pwrentied chemist. fee•ati eN,v,s of potash would
render the sugar iumpable of fermentation. And
even if iiew urixtitre were subinitted to distillation.
it is probable that pert of the iron would come ever
iu the process, nod coqtaininete the spirit.
One hundred and twelve. groins of sugar were
mixed with 10 grain*, by weight, of oil of vitriol, pre-
viously dilated with a little water. This rendered
the mixtme so sour, that it would be impossible to
use such sugar fir cuinniOn purposes. The oil of
vitriol also blackens it considerably. It would cost
;is. or 3s..tid. per cwt. to treat sugar in this way
bat • less quantity of .11 of vitriol neight be stiffs-
' dent, and, when mixed with n large portion of other
f9od, I think the acid would not be tiisAieesble to

cattle.
No experiment was made with nitrous acid, be-
cause the operation of that acid on sugar Ws boon
long knowu to chemists*. by ..ts meats two new
:Odd • aie Conned fonit *agar, lint the malic, and
then the oxalic acid, neither of which woukl be of
guy use as food for cattle.
I mixed .I.li groins of sugar with to grains of
°moose. alum. Here the sugar lost a great por—
tico of its sweetuess, and acquired d di-agreeable
astringent taste. Oue cwt. of sugar would require
Illbs. of alum for the formation of but h a mixture,
would cost Is. 3d. In this and the last ex-
prraneuto- the supermight be completely restated
hy tl.e addition of nitrate or muriate of barytes,
w:iieh would' precipitate the sulphuric acid from
• thowntor in the one case, au ..rim the earth of
alum no she other ; hut as both three are poisonous
salts, no one would think of usiug them to regene-
rate sugar lie domestic purposes.
One hundred and twelve groins of slim were
mixe.i with io grey i,5 of trona:son salt. This pro-
portion of Lilt (Wheys the sweetoess of the sugar,
mod renders it unit for human consumption. If
Goseesonewissoitld'illow the farmer waste salt. fret
of ditty, if a sufficient qoadtity may be had
at the :Lilt worts, eallCd "tine piekiiip of the
• pens," at ss. or to.. per ton, it aprears to me, that
this would he the Most suitable, convenietit, and
seiniiisideif article that.coald hi used to preeertt the
sugar from being aglin brought into common ton.
sualption. Cattle std heroes are food ef it; it is

know tito airefei-well v.. kis. diem,-tad aseee its no(
cheap way by which the sager could be !separated
from it. Cattle ate so loud of salt, that they
will
even devour large quatititias of made, if mixed
with it. - pi America it is a common Practice to
tprittkle colt in layers upon hin, when making it
i alto hay-ricks, audit is found to assist in preservity,
the hay; and to render the cattle healthy. If tt
were thought advisable to mix it with augur is this
country, such a tnixtitre might be consumed in dn.
way in large quantities, and the mixture might be
I made by,ratearis of a cheap and simple apparatus,
similar to that employed by architects for mixing
thcirmortar, called a mortar-cylinder-mill.
,Sidoild Parliament not think it advisable to allow
the firmer wade salt. Juty free. the salt continued
in.
in. sea-water. might be motel with advantage.--
Whenever ten excise officer shall wittiest the cause
pleri-aolution of sugar iu sea-water, I apprehend
the duty on sugar may be remitted. without any
(lunges of that origin ever being taken for any pur-
posy nf coarsuottcomuroption 'ha of sekswater
coutaip, on an average, ill. of common salt, and
would take up. near 30Iba. of Sugar.
. On this tiuteect I have cousulted some farmers of
great intelligence and experiguce, who are of the
clans of ituprared breeders, and feed both sheep and
'cattle on an extensive scale. These gentlemen en-
tered cordially into infviews. uud communicated
tome the following parthadarst:a—They say that
'with sugar salt may be used in the proportion of
oue-sixth With advantage; but that, for the purpose
of securing the resenac, the mixture Might be one
arart salt. one
. it train Oil, and to parts of auger.
From my. own experiment* I am persoadedV'that
less than 5. per mat. of train oil %mild effeetuilly
prevent. •sugate from ever being uteri for domestic
purposes., There centlemeo are of opirion, that
the salt ceases a quick circulation of the fluids, rind
that chalk, whiels has Icing been given wish salt
to .apes, acts upon this principle. The salt in-
duets the calf to -lick op she ehatike but the iin-
proveteent.iss the colotta of the flesh may he townie
to the Celt impelling the Evils, which otherwise,
flow is calf's coutineuratit. would-tor stagasset.
I next tr.ed•aalt-tretre Withattiatr, and tootle se-
veral eeperisiestr atitkit; bye ranseared-to..bse
that the quantity n Mesa to alto: the Owtour of
the sugar s •7, itoiald be tee dear for the use
of the Semler. . as• „ . .
I then tried aserleetida ; 11.1 # isf sugar wells
disc.! With a cleaner if 'a I:rala d ibis gum in so-:
latina. This rendered De mixture so strong in
fix. oar and risen OW lel, a mite it unfit for any cono:
noel purpose ; bat wfiether this 'attentive property
(odd he sefficiently'disguised for cattle, by the mix
-
lure of oilier faods only be known by trial: It
would cost r.l out ad..per cat. oily to treat sugar
thus wail oatairtisio.
ohm iv is- her eaperiorentir were made; but as their
results *diJ 11.4 hettli to beer too much ow dre,qoesa.
Ilia as eat/et:teal they wouW, I forbear to take
up rear flaw by reciting them. • • •
In addition to ritostattubatances on which' I have
^•-aaoo;f, sevexel others have oceptrid' to ore; hut
asara t• • at) natio the Bute of the artily. whit.
ther any'er them card he hnsmeht into use. The
articles I allude to are, eapeoi% whole oil, foot oil,
11(1,1 titrpeutiuei coal 'far, common tar 0, th•••
of animals. blued, wood ashes, soap lye, • Madder,
wormwood. gentian, quassia, &c. tiodecoction, and
the residuum procared from makers of-oil of vi-
triol. called sulphur ashes. , •
latins list 1 have not adverted to iriae; but I
in c 691 to tisiok that, all things considered,
this might be the best to mitt with sugar, to pre-
vent its getting again into mamma oessutnpuon.-
If farmers were allowedssugs?;*ffuty free, on con-
dition of an Officer of Excise seeing -a s-erbium
quantity of trrioe• mixed wits every. cat.' of the
sugar, there equid;. I thioA, be ao • danger of the
farmer ever usipg it for other posposes then throe
for which (,Stivervatent would allow him. to draw
the duty. Besides, the disigustiug patine of striae
is such, that the quantity 'Mufti safely be oinked
so low, that there *Amid be no danger of the cattle
not eating; time sugar, witch utisearos:;) a iargc, pop?
Lion of other.food. The beuelicial effect of uaue
pon horteis is so well known, that, it has become."
co I,lnv ~..esier nab ?rooms, trheeever they worst
horse to have a Lanarksitly titre coat, to unit
Urine io the manger with his corm,
Chaff is an article machr used by feeders of cat-
tle; sugar stained wits oil ruigla 1:e muted with
chaff, as another prevenbitive. thandee, as • h..tl is
turturally. astringent, the quantity of chaff t not can
now be given to cattle. is limited. By arising such
sugar with it, more might be used, and airae sugar
also might be gives' to cattle thus. they could other-
wise bear. Such a Withine would he much cheap-
er than feeding iu the usual way with o.i-cake,
ou
account of the tittening property of sugar, sod the
swell value of chaff. The largest spew-ox sup-
posed to have been ever fed in Eogland, I am told,
is now feeding by Lord Talbot, in Statfordshire,
and this a pert of his food is treacle. Horses, exert,
and sheep, prefer the sweetest vegetables, and
thrive best with such food. Hence the 14iredistr
, turnip, now. so getke'rall7 cultivated. is preferred
to the old sorts, the Seedibh coutai • g one-foarth
more sugar.
There are many testimonies on record to the nu-
tritious properties of sugar. Mons. Levities, first
burgeon to the late Duke of Orleans, relates the
following circumstance : A vessel," saki he,
laden with sugar, hound front the West luslivs,
was becalmed fur several day% on her passage, du-
ring which. the stack of provisions was exhumard.
Some of the crew were dying with the scurvy, and
the rest were threatened with death by female. In
this. emergency recourse was had to the soar.
The consequence was. the Symptoms of the scurvy
went off, the crew fused it. a whoksome and sub-
, stantial aliment, and returned in good health to
France."
lkis related, that sugar. given alone, was found
to fatten horses and cattle. during the war before
last in St. Domingo. for a pencel of several months,
in which the exportation of sugar and the imoorta-
tioa of grain were prevented' by the want of ships.
Accordiog,to Dr. Rush, Sugar has the most fa.
vourable ant on the animal economy ; sad than
eminent physician, Sir John Pringle, remailtc4l
that the plague has never bean known in any coon
try, where, sugar conepoaes a material port of the
diet of the inhabitants.

• Kr Davy has *emoted alas " retakes ;" ..e, is a'
witriorst, TeraJaporw.

Sugar 'ma this advmstage air, west kinds of se_
'tient, thief it M sot liable to hale its nutritious
quid ties affected be time or weather ; hence it is
prefeeedinvy the lodises in their excursions from
home. Titre-mix maple sugar with au equal quan-
tity of grow:id Indian corn, and pack the mixture
in little tuiskets, which 'frequently get wet ti tra-
velling, without ever iqiuring the auger. A few
spoonsfull of this mixture, in half n pint of water,
afford them a pleasant and atrengthemng meal.
Another way of using sugar tor cattle has occur-
red to me: that is, to mix it with various kinds of
damaged meal, such meal as would be totally un-
fit for human consumption. Or a mixture of da-
maged barley meal, oat meal, damaged flour, rape
cake, or linseed cake, might be made, and them
baked with sugar into bread. This week' form a
kind of 'gingerbread, with which cattle might be
fed very cheaply. The trial perhaps might be made
at Ilia Mitiesty's bakehouse at Deptford. A taro
quantity of the diflerent kinds of &i aped stria
is annually baked in I.eindou into what is called
dog-bread, for kennels, &c. The hitimins of that
would easily come into the way of baking this also.
I lotets at sea will eat ship-biscuit; this is %Nit.
known to nittriuers. Should there be any tlifficultir
in getting cattle to eat this new kind 'reinsert breed,
it might at first be ground fur them.
I, have been induced to suggest this method of
using sugar for cattle, and some -others m Aimee
atove, because I conceive it would be a desirable
thing, shottld Government give sugar to runners.
freeof duty, to allost them Mil option in the urticlos
to be employed for the deterioration of the- sugar.
This would tend to bring Peelers of cattle rocn r
into the general use of it, mid indeed different le-
adities may perhaer requite something of the kird,
in ovder to occasion a general consumption.
As for elitucgal. I sin inclined to think that it
could hot be employed fur such a purpose, for the '
folksy leg reasons : .
Ist. Before charcoal could be so even, it mutt
be finely levigated, and levigated charcoal cammt
tie had but ti it considerable expense. •
• ed. I apprehend that charcoal cannot afford ray
nutriment to cattle, and that probably it wools' be
prejudicial to the animal teconomy.
9d. The mixture of charcoal with silt Sr. I ims.
gine, would not prevent that sugar trotu being af-
terwards fraudulently used fur the still, for it is*.
I.emmon practice with rectifiers to mi t charcoal
coarse spirit, this being found to ii tprove *es
flail our.
4th. Clereoal being mixed with snlar, could
never prevent .lie use of thew gar for g.i.ieral con-
sumption ; for this subst-itice might be sq. strafed with
the greatest ease. All *that would ti.: necessary
would be to dissolve the sugar in watei!, and sepa-
'lute-the charcoal by filtration.
I now proceed, in conformity with your surges-
lion, to make a brief recapitulatio.a of the most
material ports of this paper,. and to .eialeevoar to
enumerate, end to place in one point t.t. view „those
articles reennunended ahove, which . ippeer to me
to bel..se;t calculated to answer the: desired
.
Caustic potasti;trsiu cil, *site salt, mi since of salt soil
,Sit, urine Jlt baristscru, linseed oil, si miter, assaiw-
Ada, cluiff and retest- mt.
Any of tlir,c, in my opiiiion, mi; Olt b e employ-
,l NW- •ierket safety to the btsivrtiu.r. •
'tav • 1,••• 1,,11011t to be, Ge atleenen.
Your faticbtal sal obedient hut- abiti btrvant,
Si al:1111, AMUR*
Viarestoseatemiesl Worts,
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Arrived the Prospect, iseutse„ forahe Cape of
'Good /lope ; • mut the Prutuseet4 VisaAtiri.iiherne
fat New likunswick.—WdAM r. q•
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Arrived (he Forres sod A. p 'Sao( 4040 of
war ; Hardy guu-brig : Lard Corelirolie, Meg
George, Sprit...Oily, sod Genthie: • totiers. with se-
rend transports, bound for Sci: &S.W.
InTk lUCTSI,. ASG. SI.

Ussne'toto rortland,roarta, ye. itetddy Jateroodas
with a 'strong algid at S.S.$.-o I tortugueve 74-gun
Air: vise wised float the- Besai I with a moony,
dad parted from theta ou the pm "gel - •
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Sided the IVfiritosim, for Naas. nowth. -
Arrived and idled for tbs. ft .iver, the Smoke.
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