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Oxen and Horses for Farm Work—Comparative value of Fodder* 
difficult to find his fellow. But, like almost all men I 
who have benefited and enriched their country, and 
increased ten-fold the wisdom of posterity, by the most 
important discoveries in arts, sciences, and agricul¬ 
ture ; Bakewell has been allowed to rest without even 
a monument to his memory. He devoted his energies 
to the good of the public ; his own immediate interests 
he disregarded, without once thinking that future ages 
would have cause to pay the greatest veneration to his 
memory. He may be said to have been the first agri¬ 
cultural patriot, for the man who endeavours by inces¬ 
sant exertions to improve the animal creation, is ful¬ 
ly as deserving of that distinctive appellation, as is the 
statesman whose exertions are employed for the perpet¬ 
uation of the rights and privileges of his fellow coun¬ 
trymen. 
We are proud of being able to pay this slight tribute 
of respect to the memory of a great and amiable man, 
who by his genius has created and scattered over the 
green hills, and verdant meadows of his native land, 
an animal whose beauty and usefulness will ever be a 
living monument to record his name. To him the Eng¬ 
lish agriculturists owe an imperishable debt of grati¬ 
tude, and we will conclude with a quotation from Ar¬ 
thur Young, who says, “ Let me exhort the farmers of 
this kingdom to take Mr. Bakewell as a pattern in 
many points of great importance; they will find their 
account in it, and the kingdom in general be benefit¬ 
ed not a little.” The prices which some of the Ewes 
of the Dishley breed fetched, belonging to Mr. Paget, 
when sold by public auction on the 16th of November, 
1793, were from 16 to 62 guineas each.— Lon. Far. 
Mag. 
On the Comparative Merits op Oxen and Horses 
for Farm Work. —At the Gloucester, (England,) Far¬ 
mers’ Club, a member - et stated the result of four years’ 
experience, whereby he was convinced that, for' field 
labor, with the exception of carting, oxen were supe¬ 
rior to horses. He found that a team of four oxen 
could plow as much, and with as much ease, as three 
horses could; the cost of the former not exceeding 12Z. 
per head, while the latter would cost 25Z. per head. 
The cost of maintenance was decidedly in favor of the 
former, for while his horses cost him 7s. per head per 
week, his oxen did not cost him more than 4s. He 
usually began to work his steers when they were two 
years and a half old, and found them capable of plow¬ 
ing an acre a day throughout the year, if required; and 
setting aside the saving in the first outlay—mainte¬ 
nance, harness, and attendance—which was very con¬ 
siderable, the sale of the oxen produced on an average 
a profit of 4Z. per head per annum. He therefore 
strongly recommended that on all arable farms requir¬ 
ing two or more teams, one-half should be oxen. By 
so doing, not only would a profit be received, but a much 
greater advantage would be conferred on the country 
by having to sell that stock, which, when fed, makes 
the best of all animal food—good beef—instead of sup¬ 
plying food for dogs, which is the case on most farms. 
A Table of the Comparative Value of differ¬ 
ent kinds of Fodder for Cattle has been published 
by M. Antoine, in France, and is the result of experi¬ 
ments made by the principal agriculturists of the Con¬ 
tinent, Thaer, Gemerhausen, Petro, Rieder, Weber, 
Krantz, Andre, Block, De Dombasle, Boussingault, 
Meyer, Plotow, Pohl, Smee, Crud, Schwertz, Pabst. It 
is unnecessary to give the figures which each of these 
experimentalists have set down, but the mean of their 
experiments being taken, there is more dMnce of the 
result being near the truth. Allowance must be made 
| for the different qualities of the same food on different 
soils and different seasons. In very dry summers the 
same weight of any green food will be much more nour¬ 
ishing than in a dripping season. So likewise any fod¬ 
der raised on a rich dry soil will be more nourishing 
than on a poor wet one. The standard of comparison 
is the best upland meadow-hay, cut as the flower ex¬ 
pands, and properly made and stacked, without much 
heating; in short, hay of the best quality. With re¬ 
spect to hay, such is the difference in value, that if 100 
lbs. of the best is used, it will require 120 lbs. of a se¬ 
cond quality to keep the same stock as well, 140 lbs. of 
the third, and so on, till very coarse and hard hay, not 
well made, will only be of half the value, and not so fit 
for cows or store cattle, even when given in double the 
quantity. While good hay alone will fatten cattle, 
inferior hay will not do so without other food. 
100 lbs. of Good hay is equal in nourishment to 
102 “ “ Lattermath hay 
90 i( (t hay-made Clover, when the blossom is 
completely developed. 
88 “ a Ditto, before the blossom expands. 
98 “ “ Clover, 2d crop, is equal in nourishment to 
98 “ “ Lucerne hay 
89 “ “ Sainfoin hay 
91 “ e< Tare hay 
90 c< “ Spergula arvensis, dried 
146 £< “ Clover hay, after the seed 
410 ■“ <c Green clover 
457 “ “ Vetches or tares, green 
275 fe “ Green Indian coni 
425 “ “ Green spergula 
325 <c “ Stems and leaves Jerusalem artichoke 
541 ee “ Cow-cabbage leaves 
600 “ “ Beet-root leaves 
300 “ <e Potatoe halm 
374 “ M Shelter wheat-straw 
442 <e “ Rye straw 
195 “ “ Oat straw 
153 tc “ Peas halm 
159 « ,« Vetch halm 
140 e( “ Bean halm 
195 “ “ Buckwheat straw 
170 <£ “ Dried stalks of Jerusalem artichokes 
400 “ “ Dried stalks of Indian corn 
250 u ■“ Mi’Het straw 
201 “ “ Raw potatoes 
175 “ “ Boiled do. 
220 (t “ White Silesian beet 
339 “ “ Mangold-wurzel 
504 “ “ Turnips 
276 « “ Carrots 
287 “ « Cohlkalis 
308 “ ee Swedish turnips 
350 “ “ do. with the leaves on 
54 “ “ Rye 
45 “ “ Wheat 
54 “ “ Barley 
59 « “ Oats 
50 “ ee Vetches 
45 “ “ Peas 
45 u <e Beans 
64 “ “ Buckwheat 
57 “ “ Indian corn 
32 “ “ French beans, dried 
47 tf “ Chestnuts 
68 te “ Acorns 
50 “ “ Horse-chestnuts 
62 “ “ Sun-flower seed 
69 “ ee Linseed cake 
105 “ “ Wheat , bran 
109 c< “ Rye bran 
