STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 733 



It will be observed that the 184.5 of albuminous matter is 

 greatly in excess of what is required for assimilation or increase 

 of tlesh. This supply of albumen represents 7.66 lbs. of dry 

 fibriiic per week, wliich, with the usual proportion of moisture, 

 77 per cent, is equal to a gain per week of 33.30 lbs. of flesh, 

 whilst my computation of gain per week in flesh is only 6 lbs. 

 It then follows, tliat the manure or excrement from cattle, whilst 

 fattening on turnips only, will be richer in nitrogen than when 

 supplied only with the quantity required for their maintenance. 



Professor Way, in the Royal Agricultural Society's Journal, 

 vol. iv., p. 181, gives the analyses of twenty-two kinds (^f grasses 

 in the dry state, comprising most of those which prevail on our 

 feeding pastures, from which he derives an average of 



Albuminous matter. Oil and fat. Starch, sugar, &c, 



10.98 3.08 45.57 



Tliese analyses were made on grasses chiefly when in flower. 

 Every grazier of experience will agree in saying that grass in a 

 younger state will fatten more satisfactorily. This younger grass 

 will difler chiefly in its less i^roportion of woody fibre, which, in 

 the grasses analysed by Professor Way, averaged 35 per cent. 

 A portion of this will, in the younger grasses be represented by 

 sugar, starch, &:c.; their percentage of moisture is also greater. 



There are no grounds wliatever for assigning to the younger 

 grasses a greater percentage of albuminous matter or flesh-forming 

 principle. 



The proportion of woody fibre is doubtless considerably influ- 

 enced by the quickness of growth also, to which I have called 

 attention in a former number of this Journal, the plants of 

 quicker growth having a less proportion of woody fibre, and more 

 of starcli, sugar, kc. And t<j tliis I am dis])0sed in a great de- 

 gree to attriJAite the fattening properties of fertile pastures iu 

 comparison with those on poorer soils — in corr(jboratioii uf which 

 I may state that I have, by dressing with bones and other ma- 

 nures, inducing quickness of growtli, converted old store pastures 

 on clay, .on wliicli cattle would graze for a season whli but little 

 increase, into fattening pastures. Mr. Garnett also, of Wliarfe- 

 side, near Olley, lias found a like ellect from top-dressing jiasture 

 witli guano, at the rate of 1 cwt., and 1 rwt. common salt i)er 

 acre for three seasons iu succession; this pasture on alluvial loam 



