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A Kilogram is nearly 2^ lbs. 



" Considerable as is always the production of the straw of a field, yet we see that it 

 is not equal in reference to the mass of manure of the several plants for fodder, since, 

 if we average the articles quoted which yield fodder, it gives material for only 10^ 

 cartloads of manure, whilst the articles producing straw yield only for 9 cartloads per 

 hectare. Hence it is not to be overlooked, that the fluid parts drawn from the juicy 

 plants by digestion are not generally lost, although they are no more found in the 

 excrements derived from those vegetables. But they unite themselves mostly with 

 the dry eaten articles, as well as with the litter. What those, therefore, lose, will be 

 pure gain for these, from which we may conclude how important green fodder gene- 

 rally is. If cattle have no juicy articles, they must drink the more ; the quantity ot 

 their excrements indeed remains the same, but the quality will not gain much by the 

 strong addition of water, though as to this last the operation cannot all be denied to 

 its improvement." 



Burger, Vol. I., p. 121, speaking of plants to be employed as green manure, says: 

 " For a climate in which wdieat ripens at the end of June, the lupine — lupinus alhus 

 — is the most important plant: to this succeed, in colder regions, vetches, gray peas, 

 turnips ; for easy soils, spurry and buckwheat." 



" The experiments which were made in the experimental fields of the Agricultural 

 Society of Vienna, in the years 1S23-4, 1833-4, with such manuring, and which are 

 given Vol. II. 2nd part, and Vol. III. 2nd part, of their Transactions for the year 

 1834-5, prove especially the great effects of manuring with lupines and gray peas on 

 the ground. In the autumn of 1832, a field was sown with rye. For one yoke (1.422 

 acres) there was used 1.61 metzen (2.67 bushels) of seed, which was evidently too small. 

 This field was divided into seven parts, and each part had a different preparation, 

 and gave in the next summer of 1833, a product reduced to the yoke as follows : 



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