ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
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Reducing the albuminoids into nitrogen and the respiratory 
elements into carbon, we find nitrogen 4*75, carbon 23*37, 
being 492 of carbon to 100 of nitrogen, the fatty matter 
being as 42 is to 100. 
The composition of vetches is 
Albuminoids . . 27*30 
Saccharoids . . 18*90 
Fatty matter . . 2*70 
Ligneous, &c. . . 3*50 
In the reduction of these 
23*9, or as 62 of fatty matter 
The composition of peas is 
Albuminoids . . 22’15 
Saccharoids . .61*00 
Fatty matter . .2*00 
Ligneous, &c. . .3*10 
Phosphoric acid . 1*15 
Mineral matter . 1*85 
Water . . . 14*60 
we have nitrogen 4*36, carbon 
is to 100 of nitrogen. 
Phosphoric acid . 0*76 
Mineral matter . 1*74 
Water . . . 9*25 
In reducing the albuminoids into nitrogen and the respira- 
tory elements into carbon, we have 3*54 of the former and 
28*03 of the latter, or 791 of carbon to 100 of nitrogen, the 
fatty matter being to the nitrogen as 56 is to 100. 
Amongst the authors who have written on the effects pro- 
duced by feeding on the legumini, some say that they produce 
congestion of the organs of digestion, the others, that they 
cause anaemia. 
The first of these affections has been observed in the south, 
the second in the north. The effects of these aliments vary 
accordingly in their nature and intensity, and are not always 
constant; they manifest themselves mostly when the plants 
have acquired their full maturity, but are cut before the 
grains are formed. It is not considered by the veterinary 
profession (the author remarks) that the legumini are noxious, 
but all agree that they cannot be exclusively used as aliment 
for working horses, and no one recommends the feeding of 
horses on beans and clover, or lucerne hay, to the same extent 
as on oats and meadow hay. 
Buck-wheat has been strongly recommended by Thoer 
and Dombasles as a substitute for oats in the feeding of 
farm horses. Its cultivation being easy, and its composition 
the nearest to that of oats, it contains 
Albuminoids . . 13*10 
Saccharoids . . 64*00 
Fatty matter . .3*90 
Ligneous, &c. . . 3*50 
Phosphoric acid . 0*38 
Mineral matter . 2*12 
Water . . . 13*00 
By reducing the albuminoid into nitrogen and the respira- 
tory elements into carbon, we have 2*09 of the former, and 
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