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The mixture of vegetables which is considered as the most suita- 
ble for draught horses, is composed of equal parts of cut straw, clo- 
ver, and common hay. Barley and oats coarsely ground (concas- 
sées) and mixed, answer a better purpose than when eaten sepa- 
rately. 
M. Dubuc visited this establishment, and ‘found that the - horses 
which worked the machinery, are fed in this manner, and that they 
look well and are vigorous, though kept at work ten or twelve hours 
aday. He cites also the teams of M. Sévin, mail contractor at Or- 
leans, whose horses were fed on cut straw, mixed with one-fifth of 
clover and lucerne, and sometimes a little hay. They were fat, _ 
strong, and substantial. ‘They give them also, Barley or oats crush- 
ed (concassées) and moistened. Care must be taken to place this 
food in deep mangers, so that it may not be wasted. Oats are fre- 
quently mixed with the last portions given them, prior to their being 
harnessed. 
M. Dubuc was assured by both these proprietors, that there was a 
saving of one fifth at least, by this method, and that besides the hor- 
ses were in better condition, and endured more labor than those fed 
on common unprepared materials. 
The Omnibus establishments of Paris, which employ five or six 
hundred horses, have just adopted this improved food.—Idem 
STATISTICS. 
whe “Aeudemy of St. Petersburgh.—The sixth series of the m 
moirs of this Academy commences at the centenary celebration of 
this learned body held in 1826. Up to this date, the complete col- 
lection of its volumes comprehends five series, each of which is 
marked by a change of title. From the foundation of the Academy 
in 1726 to 1803, the Latin language was the medium of communi- 
cation. The first series, called Commentaries (commentarii) extend- 
ed from 1726 to 1747, that is, from the inauguration of the Acade- 
my by the empress Catharine I, until the empress Elizabeth effected 
some new regulations. This series is in fourteen volumes. From 
1747 to 1776 there are twenty one volumes of Novi Commentarit. 
The celebration of the semi-secular jubilee established a new epoch, 
from which the publications are called Acta. Twelve volumes of 
these bring the labors of the academy to the year 1783, a memora- 
ble year, in which the academy was placed under the direction of the 
princess Daschkoff, for in Russia there is no salic law even in the 
