NUTEITITE EQUIVALENTS. 



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detection, still they usually approximate sufficiently near to 

 the truth to be of great value to the farmer. Before offering 

 any comments on them, I will proceed to lay some of these 

 before the reader, in connection with a very valuable table of 

 experimental deductions. 



* When blosaom is completely developed. 



To this Mr. Rham adds the following as equivalents of 

 100 pounds of " good hay : " — 102 lbs. latter-math hay ; 88 lbs. 

 of clover hay made before the blossom expands ; 98 lbs. of 

 clover of second crop ; 98 lbs. Lucerne hay ; 89 lbs. saiifoin 

 hay; 91 lbs. tare hay; 146 lbs. of clover after the seed; 410 

 lbs. of green clover; 457 lbs. of green vetches or tares; 

 541 lbs. of cO'W cabbage leaves; 504 lbs. turnips; 50 lbs. vetches ; 

 167 lbs. of wheat, peas and oat chaff.* . 



No one wUl understand that because a certain weight oi\ 

 one product is' a nutritive equivalent for a certain weight Of 

 another, that each will necessarily answer as a substitute for 



* Kev. W. Eham's statementa are not made from his own experiments, but Mr. 

 Spooner (from whom I borrow this column of the above table,) says they were trans- 

 lated from the French by him, and are " the mean of the result of the experiments made 

 by some of the most eminent agriculturists of Europe in. the actual feeding of cattle." 



