226 MANAGEMENT OF SHEEP. 



fatten hogs. Riita-baga is liked by horses ; it makes their 

 coats line, but it must not be given in too great quantity, or it 

 will gripe them." 



In the German Farmer's Encyclopedia, Petri, an hono- 

 rary and corresponding member of many societies for the 

 promotion of agriculture, contributed a valuable paper on " The 

 keeping, care, and breeding of Sheep," in which will be 

 found the following table of the comparative nutriment of vari- 

 ous kinds of food. 



Petri confirms what has already been said in relation to 

 the fondness of sheep for variety of food, by enumerating 252 

 plants which they eat with salutary effects, and 39 others they 

 partake, of an injurious tendency. 



He gives the following as examples of average of fodder 

 for a ewe in the month of January, when the yeaning com- 

 mences in March : 



