100 THE CHEMISTRY OP THE FARM. 



The principal results were as follows : 

 EXPEKIMENTS WITH HOUSES. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SHEEP. 



On comparing these figures it is evident that a horse 

 digests meadow grass and hay less perfectly than a sheep, 

 and the difference between them is apparently as great 

 when the food is young grass as when ordinary hay is 

 employed. There is little difference in the proportion of 

 albuminoids assimilated by the two animals, but the 

 divergence becomes considerable when we come to the 

 carbo-hydrates, fibre, and fat. Of the carbo-hydrates the 



