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ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
31*58 of the latter being fatty matter, as 191 to 100 of 
nitrogen. Barley has often been prescribed as a substitute 
for oats, ^nd is, in fact, used instead in Asia and Africa, 
but in France all proprietors of public conveyances know that 
it can only be used in small quantities in the rations, and that 
it predisposes horses to sanguineous congestion and laminitis. 
Its composition is 
Albuminoids . . 11' 50 
Saccharoids . . 65 ‘50 
Fatty matter . . 2 '80 
Ligneous, &c. . . 3*20 
Phosphoric acid . 0 85 
Mineral matter . I 1 65 
Water . . . 14 50 
Giving 1*84 of nitrogen, 30*88 of carbon, being 1678 of car- 
bon to 100 of nitrogen, the fatty matter being to the nitrogen 
as 152 is to 100. 
Rye, which has also been often tried, contains 
Albuminoids . . 1180 
Saccharoids . .6670 
Patty matter . .1*80 
Ligneous, &c. . . 3*6 
Phosphoric acid . 0‘ 83 
Mineral matter . 0'87 
Water . . . 15*0 
Giving nitrogen 1*90, carbon 30*18, being 1588 of carbon to 
100 of nitrogen, the former being to the latter as 90 is to 100. 
Wheat is composed of 
Albuminoids . . 14*80 
Saccharoids . .66*50 
Patty matter . . 1*30 
Ligneous, &c. . . 2*0 
Phosphoric acid . 0*91 
Mineral matter . 0*99 
Water . . . 13*50 
Being, when reduced, 2*37 of nitrogen, 29*46 of carbon, as 54 
of fatty matter to 100 of nitrogen. 
On account of the high price this grain is seldom given as 
food to horses ; it might, however, be recommended for 
stallions in the season, and to brood mares when with foal, its 
beneficial effects being on account of its nitrogenous prin- 
ciples contributing to the production of milk, sperm, and 
foetus. 
Given to w r orking horses instead of oats they become dis- 
eased, as was the case in the latter part of the last century 
with the horses of the French army. 
Comparing the composition of the meadow hay with that 
of lucerne, and that of oats with beans and rye, w r e can easily 
account for the effects produced by aliments, which we call 
insufficient. 
If a horse which consumes in five days 37*500 kilogrammes 
of hay, and 25 kilogrammes of oats, receives instead of it 
37*500 kilogrammes of lucerne, and 25 kilogrammes of rye, 
there w r ould be introduced in his system 1195 grammes of 
