THE SWEDISH PAN. 5 6i 
I am apt to believe however that the reader 
will be better pleafed that I have opened this new 
fcene, than if I had waited longer in order to 
gain farther light. For fince there are many 
people here curious in botany and ceconomy, i 
hope they will all lend a helping hand, that i 
may one day be enabled to give a more cpmpleat 
edition of this piece c . 
e After this in the original follows a long table of expe- 
riments, of which i fhall only give a fmall fpecimen ; as the 
whole would increafe the bulk but not the value of this piece 
to fuch readers as this tranflation is intended for, fince they 
would neither know the plants by the names the author has 
given them, nor by any i could put in their room. However 
i {hall for curiofity give a fpecimen, and add the general re- 
fult of his experiments, juft as he has marked it at the end 
of his table ; which is as follows, * Thus far, 1 fays he ? 
* we have given 2314 experiments. From thefe It appears 
f that 
Oxen eat 
276 refufb 
Goats 
449 
126 
Sheep 
387 
141 
Horfes 
262 
212 
Swine 
7 2 
? 7 l 
* And thus thefe animals leave untouched 886 plants. 
‘ Thefe animals will not eat any kind of mofs . 
s The goats are very fond of the alga. 
* Some of them greedily devour the fungi , others will 
not tafte them. But we recommend farther trials in rela- 
* tion to thefe matters.* 
Then follows an account of fome trials made by Dr. 
Hagftrorh the Tamp purpofe in relation to then deer , 
but 
