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cake, 300 Ibs. clover hay, and 400 Ibs. swedes. Pigs will require about 

 500 Ibs. of barley meal to yield a similar result. 



If we draw our conclusions from the composition of diets of acknow- 

 ledged good quality, and regard solely the true albuminoids present we 

 shall find that a diet having an albuminoid ratio of 1 : 9 10 is 

 very suitable for fattening oxen ; a diet of 1 : 8 9 will give good re- 

 sults with sheep, and one of 1 : 7 with pigs. Diets more nitrogenous may, 

 however, be employed with more or less advantage. 



SOME PACTS TO GUIDE THE GROWER OF BEEF. 



Any branch of science that is intimately related to the more prominent 

 necessaries of human life must be the most interesting of all sciences. The 

 beauties of study in Astronomy and Geology cannot, for example, compare 

 in intrinsic value with Animal Physiology and Chemistry as taught 

 through the upbuilding of a fattening steer and of a bushel of wheat ; yet 

 the discoverer of a planet or of a new compound secures the world's ap- 

 plause as against the producer of improved food for man. That this will 

 always be so is not evident, because, I think, as the world becomes more 

 practical, it will also become more honest in distribution of favours that 

 bear upon the every-day comforts of its people. Excuse the temptation 

 thus given to record in our history, as Experimentalists, how much we 

 rejoice with Europe in the high honour just accorded to the late J. B. 

 Lawes now Sir J. B. Lawes, Bart, of Rothamstead, England England's 

 first man in the science and practice of what has largely made her a na- 

 tion Agriculture . 



It is already a certain thing that the leaders of all classes are becoming 

 more practical in regard to the life of the millions of every country ; in 

 fact, land and its productions are not only the absorbing questions, but 

 are at the root of a revolution that will ring the earth in another ten 

 years. In calling the attention of Ontario farmers to this phase of rural 

 economy, I do so with the view of obtaining for that branch of it called 

 " Live Stock" such a measure of scientific recognition as its importance 

 justifies. I do not complain that science has taken no notice of beef, 

 mutton and wool, in other countries, but I do complain that the great na- 

 tional bodies of scientific men on this continent have not formally admit- 

 ted farmers as co-partners in their annual deliberations. I shall apologize 

 if I am in the wrong in this, as I may have overlooked some recent work ; 

 but I cannot withhold complaint, if, on the other hand, no place, for ex- 

 ample, has been, or will be, allowed the scientific and practical ^agricul- 



