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THE COMPLETE GRAZIER. 



BOOK I. 



and catching title of " Salt, the Forbidden Fruit." What we have now 

 to say on the subject is, that the belief of many stock-breeders seems 



TABLE SHOWING THE AVERAGE COMPOSITION, PER CENT. AND PER TON, 



OF CATTLE FOODS. 



ash- 



* In the case of neither rice-meal, locust-beans, nor yellow turnips, have records of as 

 analyses been found. For rice-meal the same percentages of phosphoric acid and potash 

 in Indian corn, and for yellow turnips the same as in swedes, are provisionally adopted ; 

 but in all cases the assumed results are given in parentheses. For locust beans no 

 figure has been assumed, and the columns are left blank. 



