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PRODUCTION 



Sect. XVI. 6. 



2 



been believed to deflroy the eggs of infers fuppofed to adhere to it 

 or to fertilize the foil. 



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2. The weight of a given meafure of corn will alfo with confider- 

 able certainty difcover the quantity of hulk or bran contained in it. 

 compared to the quantity of flour ; as 



as h 



early, or which is otherwife not 



fbns, (brinks in the barn or granary, and becomes wrinkled and 



■ ; as tha 

 quite jip 



which 



ppe 



too 

 fea- 



p report ion of Ik 



bra 



than that which h 



more perfedly ripened, and will hence weigh lighter in proport 

 A tell of this kind may enable us to determine whether 



been 



beans, ■ 

 horfes. 



a ftrike 



-r peas and 

 oats, are preferable in refpe£l to economy as provender for 

 A flrike or bufhel of oats weighs perhaps forty pounds, and 

 •r bufliel of peas and beans perhaps fixty pounds ; and as 

 the ikin of peas and beans is much lefs in quantity than that of oats, 

 I fuppofe there may be at leafl: fifteen pounds of flour more in a flrike 

 of peas and beans than in a ftrike of 

 lieve, that the flour of beans is 



more 



appear 



in the fatt 



o 



of ho^s 



as 



Its. There is alfo reafon to be 

 nutritive than that of oats, 

 hence according to the refpec 

 prices of thefe two articles I fufped, that peas and beans gene 



o 



rally fupply a cheaper provender for horfes than 

 other domed 



well as for 



of 



r 



But as the flour of peas and beans is more oily, I believe, than that 

 oats, it may in general be fomewhat more difficult of digeftion ; 

 hence when a horfe has taken a ftomach full of peas and beans alone, 

 he may be lefs adive for an hour or two, as his flrength will be more 

 employed in the digeftion of them, than when he has taken a ftomach 

 full of oats. According to the experiment of a German phyfician, 

 who gave to two dogs, which had been kept a day failing, a large 

 quantity of flefli food ; and then taking one of them into the fields 

 hunted him with great adivity for three or four hours, and left the 

 other by the fire. An emetic was then given to each of them, and 



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3 



the 



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