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them in great health and spirits, as much or more so, than with the 

 full allowance of oats. Now, this opinion, delivered so decisively 

 on this important point, by such an accurate observer as Mr. Curwen, 

 whose experiments have been made upon a very large scale, I consider 

 to be worth a thousand hypotheses of speculative men ; for this gen- 

 tleman keeps one hundred working Horses, and has not hazarded this 

 notion on light grounds, having made use of carrots for the space of 

 three i/earSj before he published the result of his experience on this 

 subject. This opinion of Mr. Curwen, too, (or rather detail of the 

 result of three year's experience) forms a very strong presumptive 

 proof of the superior nutritious property of saccharine, over every 

 other kind of vegetable, matter ; for oats have been found to contain 

 743 parts of nutritive ingredients out of 1000, whereas, carrots con- 

 tain only 98 parts, in the same proportion ; but then (as has been 

 before observed) 95 of these are saccharine matter. 



The Ruta Baga, or Swedish Turnip, has been given on a large 

 scale, to Horses as Avell as other cattle, and the late reports of many 

 eminent agriculturists, are highly in favour of this root. The sac- 

 charine matter contained in this esculent has been found to be more 

 than one twentieth part, which sufficiently accounts for its nutritious 

 property. From the communication of a writer in the Farmer*8 

 Journal, it appears that working Horses that performed severe labour, 

 were kept in good condition, upon a daily allowance of thirty four 

 pounds of Swedish turnip, three quarterns of oats, with chopped 

 straw, without any hay. 



And Mr Edgeworth of Edgeworthstown, adduces still stronger 

 testimonies in favour of the nutritious property of Swedish turnip, 

 by informing us, in the Irish Farmer's Journal of March, 1813, that 



