$ 5 $ THE SWEDISH PAN. 
and fat, than he who is deflitute of thefe priq-? 
ciples. The good cpconomifl will obferve the 
fame of his hay. For although many herbs, 
when dry, are eat, which when green would 
be refufed, it does not follow from hence that 
they yield good nourifhment. Much might be 
added concerning the propenfion of cattle to 
this or that plant, which the compafs of this 
fmall tradl will not admit of ; e. g. that Jheep 
above all things delight in the fejluca 95. and 
grow fatter upon it than any other kind of 
grafs •, that goats prefer certain plants, but 
being led by an inflindt peculiar to themfelves, 
they fearch more after variety, and do not long 
willingly flick to any one kind of food whatever^ 
that geefe are particularly fond of the feeds of 
the fejluca , FI. 90 ; that fwine greedily hunt 
after the roots of the bull-rujh 40. while they 
are frefh, but will not touch them when dry. 
Hence it appears that it is in vain to contrive 
engines to extradl the roots of the bull-rujh out 
of the water, and dry them for the ufe of thefe 
animals in winter. Becaufe thefe animals fpoil 
the meadows, where the fcorzonera grows, iq. 
order to come at its root, which they delight 
in 5 and alfo the fields, to get at the loots of 
$lowns-all-heal y the hufbandman imagines they 
do 
