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or seven stones of 16 Ib. each. He has found, from actual 

 weighing, that his average crops are about 25 tons per 

 Scotch acre; thus, one acre, at the above rate of feeding, 

 serves five pair of horses fifty days. When his horses receive 

 Swedish turnip in that proportion, they always get a feed 

 of corn less per day, which, at 6d. per feed, or 1 s. per pair 

 of horses a-day, gives L.I 2, 10s. per acre, for the value of 

 the Swedes, at the same time, fully one-third less of hay is 

 sufficient. This saving, in the first instance, is not the 

 only advantage ; for he has uniformly found these valuable 

 roots, are nearly equal to the finest grass in the month of 

 June, for putting horses into the highest condition, and en- 

 abling them to perform the severe labour common during 

 the spring. Indeed, by substituting the Swedes for a feed 

 of oats, his horses have been, for the last two years, in a bet- 

 ter condition, than he could ever make them before, al- 

 though they had corn and hay in any quantity they chose 

 to eat. 



Some farmers also, give to their horses boiled barley* 

 This practice is very strongly recommended by Mr Rennie 

 of Kinblethmont, near Arbroath, who gives his horses one 

 feed or lippie * of oats, and one lippie of boiled barley per 

 day. He was for a long time prevented from doing it, 

 having formed an idea, that the high price of fuel, would 

 counterbalance any advantage attending the plan ; but by 

 using a considerable quantity of the refuse of great coal, 

 which burns perfectly well in a well-constructed furnace, 

 he can safely assert, that the expence of coals, for boiling 

 one feed of barley per day, for eight months, will not ex- 



* A lippie is the fourth part of a Scotch peck, and weighs from 3 Ib. 

 7 oz. to 4 Ib. according to the quality of the oats ; but the weight of the 

 customary lippie, when heaped, as is the general practice, may be from 

 5 to 6 Ib. 



