9A THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



of the many a book at once cheap and voluminous. 

 After discussing the subject of food proper for a horse, 

 he adds — 



" It may not be uninteresting to conclude this cata- 

 logue of the different articles of liorses' food with a list 

 of the quantities of nutritive matter contained in each 

 of them ; for although these quantities cannot be con- 

 sidered as expressing the actual value of each, because 

 other circumstances besides the simple quantity oi 

 nutriment seem to influence their effect in supporting 

 the strength and condition of the horse, yet many a 

 useful hint may be derived when the farmer looks over 

 the produce of his soil, and inquires what other grasses 

 or vegetables might suit his soil. The list is taken 

 partly from Sir Humphry Davy's Agricultural Che- 

 mistry : — 1000 parts of wheat contains 955 parts of 

 nutritive matter ; barley, 920 ; oats, 742 ; peas, 574 ; 

 beans, 570; potatoes, 230; red beet, 148; parsnips, 

 99; carrots, 98. Of the grasses, 1000 parts of the 

 meadow cat's-tail contain at the time of seeding 98 

 parts of nutritive matter ; narrow-leaved meadow grass 

 in seed, and sweet-scented soft grass in flower, 95 ; 

 narrow-leaved and flat-stalked meadow grass in flower, 

 fertile meadow grass in seed, and tall fescue in flower, 

 93 ; fertile meadow grass, meadow fescue, reed-like 

 fescue, and creeping soft grass in flower, 78 ; sweet- 

 scented soft grass in flower, and the aftermath, 77 ; 

 florin, cut in winter, 76 ; tall fescue, in the aftermath 

 and meadow soft grass i i flower, 74 ; cabbage, 73 ; 

 crested dog's-tail and brome flowering, 71; yellow oat 

 in flower, 66 ; Swedish turnips, 64 ; narrow-leaved 

 meadow grass, creeping beet, round-headed cocksfoot, 

 and spiked fescue, 59 ; roughish and fertile meadow 

 grass, flowering, 56 ; florin, in summer, 54 ; com- 

 mon turnips, 42 ; sainfoin, and broad-leaved and 



