HORTUS GRAMINEUS WOBURNENSIS. O 



the former. Viewing the results of this experiment, therefore, 

 merely as a test for proving the comparative degree of nourish- 

 ment contained in these several species of food, and not as a proof 

 of the relative value of the respective breeds of animals, (for 

 which this experiment was made, and fulfilled the intention), we 

 could arrive at no satisfactory conclusion ; because it still remains 

 to be proved, whether another individual of the same breed as 

 the ox, (No. 4), might not have gained a greater proportion of 

 flesh from the same weight of food as was consumed by the 

 latter. 



If the weight of nutritive matter which the chemical process 

 shews these different species of food to contain, be now compared 

 with the weight of flesh which the different oxen gained from it, 

 the comparison will manifest the superior utihty of this new mode 

 of investigating the nutritive qualities of the food of these 

 animals. 



No. 1. "^ 



Hereford J 



Ox. y 



No. 2. "1 

 Hereford > 



No. 3. -1 



Devon ^ 



Ox. 3 



No 

 De 



o. 4. "l 



levou > 



Ox. 3 



No. 5. ■! 



Sussex > 



Ox. 3 



No. 6. -1 

 Leicester ;• 



Ox. 3 



Food consumed. 



lbs. 



oil-cake 

 «700 turnips 

 487 hay 



423| oil-cake 

 2712 turnips 

 43^4 hay 



438J oil-cake 

 3668 turnips 

 295 hay 



442f oil-cake 

 2636 turnips 

 442| hay 



432 oil-cake 

 2655 turnips 

 9 2 hay 



4344 oil-cake 

 2652 turnips 

 4004 hay 



Weight of Nutritive 



Matter by the Chemical 



Process. 



lbs. oz. dr. cwt. qrs. lbs. 



132 >2 20 

 112 o3 



116 

 134 

 99 7 



8 0") 

 3 0} 



7 oy 



7 3") 



3 S 



9 103 



21 8 0") 



SO 7 7 U 



01 15 o3 



3 14 



120 



132 



67 



2 3 12 



121 



1 



10 



3 18 



113 12 0") 

 1'J9 8 >3 

 125 



119 

 129 

 ls:7 



o3 



7 0") 



U V 



9 o3 



1 9 



3 1 12 



Difference between the Weight of 



Nutritive Matter and that of 



the Flesh gained. 







cwt. qrs. lbs. 



in which the nu- 

 1 21, r tritive matter ex- 

 < ceedithe flesh. 



Tin which the nu- 

 17, < tritive matter ex- 

 (. ceeds the flesh. 



J 16 



Tin w 



, < exc( 



(_ triti 



in which the flesh 

 ceeds the nu- 

 tritive matter. 



C in which the flesh 

 1 1 24, \ exceeds the nu- 

 l_ tritive matter. 



Tin which the nu- 

 1 19, ^ tritive matter ex- 

 %_ ceeds the flesh. 



r in which the nu- 

 1 26, ^ tritive matter ex- 

 (. ceeds the flesh. 



The only point assumed in the foregoing comparisons, is the 

 quality of the hay, or the kinds of grasses that composed it; of 

 which, in the account of the experiment quoted, no mention is 

 made. Likewise, some linseed cakes are much more nutritive 

 than others ; I have found them to vary from 67 to 132 grains, 



