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analysis or continental journals. 
only mentioned here to make it comprehensible that it is not 
enough that a horse is well fed, but the food must also con- 
tain the necessary quantity of the elements of nutrition, and 
that those elements must be sufficiently concentrated as in 
the aliments taken for type, namely, meadow hay and oats. 
The author remarks further on, “ It is a question whether 
these aliments are not indebted for some of their advantages 
to the superiority of their odours, owing to their aromatic 
principles, exciting the horse to eat them greedily, digest them 
well, and appropriate them thoroughly ? ” 
Aliments insufficient in thermogen principles . — Instead of hay 
leguminous plants are given to horses, such as dried clover, 
sainfoin, lucerne, &c. ; all these vary little in their chemical 
composition. Lucerne contains 
Albuminoids 
12*00 
Phosphoric acid 
. 0*25 
Saccharoids 
41*80 
Mineral matter 
. 5 45 
Fatty matter . 
Ligueous, &c. . 
Clover hay contains 
350 
22*00 
Water 
. 15*00 
Albuminoids 
10*60 
Phosphoric acid 
. 0*315 
Saccharoids 
39*20 
Mineral matter 
. 4685 
Fatty matter . 
Ligneous, &c. . 
320 
22 20 
Water . 
. 20 000 
If we reduce the albuminoids into nitrogen, and the re- 
spiratory principles into carbon, we find 1*70 of the former 
and 20 32 of the latter, or 1195 of carbon to 100 of nitrogen. 
The sainfoin is harder than the lucerne or clover, but is similar 
in its composition. 
The second cut of meadow hay in composition resembles the 
legumini. 
Albuminoids . . 1240 
Saccharoids . .40*50 
Fatty matter . . 3*50 
Ligneous, &c. . . 21*50 
Mineral matter . 8*00 
Water . . . 14*10 
The carbon being to the nitrogen as 176 to 100. 
The second cut of meadow hay has always been considered 
as more fit for the feeding of milch cows. 
It has been remarked that horses fed on it sweat, and 
renders them unfit for work; the composition explains this. 
Like the hay, the grains of the legumini contain a large 
quantity of albuminoid matter. 
Beans contain 
Albuminoids . . 29*70 
Saccharoids . . 49 90 
Fatty matter . . 2'00 
Ligneous, &c. . . 2*90 
Phosphoric acid . 102 
Mineral matter . 19 8 
Water . . . 12*50 
