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Pease, 2 lbs. per head daily readily eaten in duration : drank from 2 to 

 3 quarts of water per head in 24 hours, and remained perfectly 

 healthy. In an unsoaked condition pease are hard for sheep to 

 eat, and wear their teeth. 

 Wheat, sheep ate greedily 2 lbs. per head in duration, and drank from 

 2 to 3 quarts of water in 24 hours ; made them very lively, and 

 remained perfectly healthy. 

 Rye, sheep do not eat readily, and it does them little good, as is exhib- 

 ited in the above results of the increase of weight : they drank 

 from 2 to 3 quarts of water daily. 

 Barley, 2^ lbs. per head daily in duration with greediness, and sheep 

 do extremely well on it : they drank 3 quarts of water per head 

 in 24 hours. 

 Oats, had the same effect as barley upon the appetite and health. 

 Buckwheat, sheep eat with great avidity, and with the best results upon 



the health and liveliness of the animals. 

 Good hay, 4^ lbs. per head daily in duration, and drank 2 J to 3 quarts 



of water in 24 hours. 

 Flag-hay, rush, &c., the lighter and the less sheep eat of it the better, 

 as it makes them weak and inactive ; and two of the sheep on 

 which the experiments were made, became sick — one was killed, 

 the liver and gall of which were found infected, and the other 

 died. 

 M. de Raumer also considers, in accordance with M. Von Thaer, 

 1 lb. oil-cake meal to be as nutritious as 2 lbs. of hay. 

 80 " clover hay like 100 lbs. ordinary hay. 

 84 " vetches, esparsette and lucerne, the same. 

 200 " good sound straw of pease and vetches like 100 lbs. hay. 

 300 " barley and oat straw like 100 lbs. hay. 

 400 " wheat straw like 100 lbs. hay. 



100 " turnips nourish as much as 40 lbs. potatoes or 50 lbs. mangel- 

 wurtzel. 

 The above I have for a number of years, say 12 or 13, taken as my 

 guide in foddering sheep, and have found that my flock did extremely 

 well whenever I proportioned their food according to nutritiousness, and 

 in such manner as that which 2 lbs. of good hay would give to each 

 animal. If, therefore, I fed potatoes or other roots or grain, I gave straw 

 with it in order to fill the belly. The best way I have found to be, a fod- 

 dering of straw in the morning before roots. It seems to be congenial to 



