NUTEITITB EQUIVALENTS. 



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detection, still they; usually approximate sufficiently near to 

 thetruth. 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 blossom 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. sanfoin 

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

 lbs. of green clover; 45V lbs., of green vetches or tares; 

 641 lbs. of cow cabbage leaves; 504 lbs. turnips; 50 lbs. vetches ; 

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



'No one will understand that because a certain weight of 

 one product is a nutritive equivalent for a certain weight of 

 another, that each will necessarily answer as a, substitute for 



* Kev. W. Bham'B statements are not made from hSs o\ni experiments, bntHr. 

 Spooner (from whom I borrow this colnmn 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 agricultnrists of Enrope in the actual feeding of cattle." 



