SHEEP HUSBANDRY IN THE SOiTM. 



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FODDERS. 



TABLE OF THE NUTaiTIVE EQUIVALENTS OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF FODDERS. 



Ordinwry naiuial meadow hay 



Do. of fine quality 



Do. seleitt 



Do. freed from woody stems 



Liicern hay 



Red clover hay, 2d year's giowth. 

 I Red clover cut in flower, green, do. 

 iNew wheat straw, ciop 1841 



Old wheal 81 raw 



Do do. lower part/i of the stalk... 



Do. do. upper part of do. and ear.. 



New rye-straw 



Old do 



Oat-str»«r 



Barley do 



I Pea do 



iMillet do 



Buckwheat do 



Lentil do 



Vetches cut in Hower and dried ) 

 into hay ) 



Potato tops 



Field-beet leaves 



Carrot do 



.lerusalem artichoke stems 



Lime-trees, youn? shoots 



Canada Poplar do 



Oak do 



Acacia do. i autumn) 



Drum oabbase 



Swedish turnip 



Turnip 



Field-heet (1838' 



Do. while Silesian 



Carrots 



.Terusalem artichokes (1839) 



IDo. (18.36)... 



I Potatoes (163-') 



Oo.(18:i6) 



Do. after keepins in the pit 



Cider apple pulp'dried in the air.. 



Reet-root from the suear mill 



I Vetches in seed 



I Field-beans 



1 White peas (dryi 



I VVhite haricots 



I.eniils 



New Indian Com 



I Buckwheat 



'liarley (I83fi) 



Karley-meal 



Oat^fl838) 



Do. (IRifi) 



Rve(1838) 



Wheat (IRSfi. Alsace) 



Do. from highly manured soil 



Recent Bran 



Wheat husks or chaff. 



Kice (Piedmont) 



Gold of Pleasure seed (Madia).. . . 



Do. ca)te 



Linseed cake 



Oolza do 



Madia do, 



Hemp do 



Poppy do. 



Nut ' 



Beech-mast do 



Arachis (Pindars) do 



Dry acorn? 



Refuse of the wine-press, air.dried 



io..5| i>.r)0 



6.5| 5.9.1 



5.0 4.78 



6.8 5.70 



6.0 5..59 



6.? 3.53 



6.6 1 8.89 



48.2 1 3.31 



0.28 

 0.17 

 0.13 

 0.21 



0.18 



o.rio 



0.33 

 0.4J 

 0.:iH 

 0.:!7 

 30 

 0..=;9 

 0.38 

 4.37 

 ."i.ll 

 3.84 

 4.58 

 4.00 

 1.64 

 2.10 

 1.76 

 2.14 

 1.74 

 1.92 

 2.00 

 2.09 

 2.65 



"I 



533; 

 366 



... 366: 

 3821 205! 

 348 

 274 

 319 

 3 



383 

 195 

 303 



26 



23 



27 



25 



29 



70 



55 



65 



54 



68 



60 



58 



55 



400 Schwerti 

 400 do. 

 90 Pohl. 



429 

 3001 250 

 526! 450 



Dombasle, 

 [Ciud 



I Boussingault 



Boussingault. 



Some specimens 

 are twice as rich. 



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