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Dairy Management. 



I assume * the oil or fat of 120 lbs. of turnips per day for for 24 

 weeks, 44"34 lbs.) to be required for maintenance, and compute it as equal 

 to starch, in proportion of 2 lbs. of oil to 5 lbs. of starch and sugar, or 



44-34 lbs = 110-88 



Starch and sugar in 120 lbs. of turnips per day for 24 weeks 13.30-12 



1441- 



It will be observed that the 184'5 of albuminous matter is 

 greatly in excess of what is required for assimilation or increase 

 of flesh. This supply of albumen represents 7'66 lbs. of dry 

 fibrine per week, which 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 that 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 of grasses 

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

 feeding pastures, from which he derives an average of — 



Albuminous Matter. 



10-98 



Oil and Fat. 



3-08 



starch, Sugar, &c. 



45-57 



These analyses 

 Every grazier of 

 younger state will 

 will differ chiefly 

 the grasses analy 

 A portion of this 

 sugar, starch, &c 



were made on grasses chiefly when in flower, 

 experience will agree in saying that grass in a 

 fatten more satisfactorily. This younger grass 

 in its less proportion of woody fibre, which, in 

 sed bv Professor Way, averaged 35 per cent. 

 will in the younger grasses be represented by 

 ; their percentage of moisture is also greater. 



* Vide Lehmann, Cavendish Society's Ed., vol. iii. 



