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composition of the dry matter in the flesh of the apple with the dry 
matter in various roots (and in the pumpkin), as has been done in the 
following table : —* 
dry matter (in- 
eluding Ash) in 
the fresh mate- 
Albuminoids 
Carbohydrates, 
including Fat. 
Cellulose. 
Ash (free from 
C&C 0O,). 
The proportion of 
rial is — 
MOSEPSP a base, yi. 
Jerusalem Artichoke 
Sugar Beet. 
Field Beet . 
Carrot : 
Kuta Bapa. ... 
White Turnip. . . 
oy lc) 
Pumpkin 
Flesh of Applet . 
Pomace:.. .. 
The practical conclusion to be drawn from these comparisons seems 
plain. The exceedingly small proportion of nitrogen in the apple, 
indicates very clearly the necessity of using, in conjunction with this 
fruit, some kind of fodder that is exceptionally rich in nitrogenous 
constituents ; such, for example, as greaves, or flesh-meal, or fish-scrap 
(that has been carefully cured), peas, beans, oil-cake, or the like. I 
have myself witnessed, many years since, some highly favorable results, 
that were obtained by feeding a herd of fifteen or twenty swine with a 
mash made of the sourest native cider apples, and the meal of mixed 
peas and oats. In this instance, the apples were boiled thoroughly in 
large kettles, whence they were shovelled into hogsheads, where a 
small proportion of the meal was sprinkled upon each layer of the 
hot mass, and left where it fell for awhile, in order that it might be 
cooked, before the whole was stirred to a homogeneous mixture. The 
oats and peas had been grown together, and threshed and ground 
as if the harvest had been oats alone. The swine, which were from a 
* Copied from Dietrich and Keenig’s “Zusammensetzung und Verdau- 
lichkeit der Futterstoffe,” Berlin, 1874, p. 78. 
+t Mean of the two analyses reported on page 365. 
