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ting machine is scarcely yet come into use, although it has 
been well proved that the sheep fed with turnips cut for them, 
will fetch from 5s. to 7 s. per head above those which have to 
eat the turnips from the ground. As the quality of food is 
of much consequence, and the quantity ought to be adapted 
to the quality, and this again regulated by the cost of pro- 
duction, it may be of use to give a table which exhibits 
the results, by the distinguished agriculturist De Raumer, 
of the effects produced by an equal quantity of several sub- 
stances in increasing the flesh, tallow, and wool of sheep : — 
Lb. 
1000 
DE RAUMER'S TABLE, showixVG. 
Potatoes, raw, with salt 
„ without salt 
Mangel Wurtzel, raw 
Wheat 
Oats 
Barley 
Peas 
Rye, with salt 
„ without salt 
„ Meal, wet 
Buck Wheat 
Good Hay 
Hay with straw, and without other fodder 
Oil Cake 
Straw of Vetches, Peas 
Straw of Barley, and Oats 
Straw of Wheat 
Increase 
Produce 
Produce 
in 
in 
in 
Flesh. 
Wool. 
Tallow. 
Lb. 
Lb. 
Lb. 
61 
12 
44" 
64 
38 
5i 
'It 
155 
14 
59 
146 
10 
42 
136 
IH 
60 
134 
144 
41 
133 
14 
35 
90 
42 
129 
131 
174 
120 
10 
33 
58 
74 
154 
13 
31 
116 
15 
26 
29 
13? 
19^ 
5J 
j> 
141 
J» 
Proportion with respect to nutritive matter per acre (by Sinclair) in— 
r Or by Morton 1^ tons produce 301b. of flesh: or 
j according to the Womersley sheep farmers, one 
Common Turnip 14 1 acre of ten tons of turnips will keep ten sheep 
1_ for four months, each to gain 20 lbs. of flesh. 
Swedes 16 
Carrots 24 
Mangel Wurtzel.. 28 
Potatoes 63 
It may be remarked of this table, that ^rain gives about 
three times the increase in flesh that roots and hay do, when 
given in equal weights : that grain produces about twice as 
