COMPOSITION or FOOD. 



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Antoine, in France, and is the result of experiments made by 

 the principal agricuUurists on the continent, Thaer, Gemer- 

 hausen, Petro, Rieder, Weber, Krantz, Andre, Block, De 

 Dombasle, Boiissingaiilt, Meyer, Plotow, Pohl, Smee, Crud, 

 Schwertz, Pabst. It is unnecessary to give the figures which 

 each of these experimentalists have set down, but the mean 

 of their experiments being taken, there is more chance of the 

 result being near the truth. Allowance must be made for the 

 different qualities of the same food on different soils and dif- 

 ferent seasons. In very dry summers the same weight of 

 any green food will be much more nourishing than in a drip- 

 ping season. So likewise any fodder raised on a rich dry 

 soil will be more nourishing than on a poor wet one. The 

 standard of comparison is the best upland meadow-hay, cut 

 as the flower expands, and properly made and stacked, with- 

 out much heating ; in short, hay of the best quality. With 

 respect to hay, such is the difference in value, that if 100 

 lbs. of the best is used, it will require 120 lbs. of a second 

 quality to keep the same stock as well, 140 lbs. of the third, 

 and so on, till very coarse and hard hay, not well made, will 

 only be of half the value, and not so fit for cows or store cat- 

 tle, even when given in double the quantity. While good 

 hay alone will fatten cattle, inferior hay will not do so with- 

 out other food. 









100 lbs. of good hay is equal in nourish- 

 ment to 

 Lattermath hay 

 hay-made Clover, when the 

 blossom is completely de- 

 veloped 



" Ditto, before the blossom ex- 

 pands. 



" Clover, 2d crop, is equal in 

 nourishment to 

 Lucerne haj' 

 Saintfoin hay 



♦' Tare hay 



" Spergula arvensis, dried 



" Clover hay, after the seed 



" Green clover 



" Vetches or tares, green 



" Green Indian corn 



" Green spergula 



" Stems and leaves Jerusalem 

 artichoke 



" Cow-cabbage leaves 



" Beet-root leav^es 



" Potato halm 



" Shelter wheat-straw 



" Rye straw 



" Oat straw 



" Peas halm - 



" Vetch halm 



" Bean halm 



" Buckwheat straw 



" Dried stalks of Jerusalem ar- 

 tlchok<}s 



102 

 90 



88 



98 



98 



89 



91 



90 



146 



410 



457 



275 



425 



325 



Ml 



600 



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374 

 442 

 195 

 l.-iS 

 159 

 140 

 195 

 170 



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