OF STRAW, ITS VALUE, AND USES. 395 



In some parts of Scotland, beans are not cultivated in 

 such large quantities, as to constitute, the whole food, of 

 farm stock, for any considerable space of time : Oat or 

 barley-straw is therefore given them, as their allowance of 

 provender during the night ; and, in the intervals of work- 

 ing, they are fed with bean-straw, as more nourishing.* 



It is singular that in Middlesex, where beans are in ge- 

 neral well harvested, the value of the straw should be so 

 little known, as to be generally employed in bedding the 

 fanners' horses, and other cattle when housed, or in lit- 

 tering the farm-yards, when it is picked over by young 

 stock.f 



5. Peas-straw. In Scotland, the halm of peas, is used 

 as fodder for work-horses, instead of hay ; and, when well 

 harvested, forms a very excellent provender, insomuch, 

 that it is considered to be of almost equal value as the 

 grain itself. As the halm is seldom sold, there is a want 

 of data on which its weight, and consequent money va- 

 lue, can be estimated; but a good crop, in favourable 

 seasons, may perhaps weigh 150 Scotch hay stones, or a 

 ton and a half; and may consequently be worth, in cases 

 where the farmer is allowed to sell straw, from 'L. 3, 15s. 

 to L,5, 12s., or even L. 7, 10s. per statute acre, according 



a half, (equal to three table spoonfulls), of spirits of turpentine, greatly 

 assists in removing the complaint. Should the animal not be relieved by 

 the first dose, it may be repeated in an hour afterwards, with the addi- 

 tion of an emollient clyster, if the animal is costive. This remedy is not 

 proper in the inflammatory colic, which horses are sometimes subject to; 

 but that complaint, most fortunately, does not often occur. 



* Moray Report, p. 194. 



t Middlesex Report, p. 193. 



