|Bere | 10.25 | ...| 62.85 | 10.08 | 2.60| 14.22 | |Hay (mean of different | | | | | | | | grasses) | 9.40 | 2.56| 38.54 | 29.14 | 5.84| 14.30 | |Barley | 8.69 | ...| 64.52 | 9.67 | 2.82| 14.30 | |Coarse barley dust | 8.46 | 3.47| 69.73 | 7.31| 11.03 | |Rice dust | 8.08 | 2.95| 69.22 | 8.12| 11.63 | |Oat dust | 6.92 | 3.21| 72.86 | 7.70| 9.31 | |Winter bean straw | 5.71 | ...| 67.50 | 6.39| 20.40 | |Carob bean | 3.11 | 0.41| 62.51 | 18.60 | 2.80| 12.57 | |Potato | 2.81 | ...| 17.30 | 1.07 | 1.13| 77.69 | |Carrot | 1.87 | ...| 7.91 | 3.07 | 1.11| 86.04 | |Wheat straw | 1.79 | ...| 31.06 | 45.45 | 7.47| 14.23 | |Barley straw | 1.68 | ...| 39.98 | 39.80 | 4.24| 14.30 | |Oat straw | 1.63 | ...| 37.86 | 43.60 | 4.95| 12.06 | |Mangold-wurzel | 1.54 | ...| 8.60 | 1.12 | 0.96| 87.78 | |Cabbage | 1.31 | ...| 4.53 | 1.05| 93.11 | |Turnips | 1.27 | 0.20| 4.07 | 1.08 | 1.71| 91.47 | +----------------------------+--------+------+--------+-------+------+-------+ It is at once obvious that in many of these descriptions of food the ratio of the flesh to the fat-forming constituents differ very widely from that existing in the milk, and this becomes still more apparent when the latter are represented in their fat equivalent, as is done for a few of them in the following table:-- Flesh Respiratory, expressed forming, in their fat equivalent, Decorticated earth-nut cake 44.0 16.6 Linseed cake 28.5 26.7 Tares 26.73 18.8 Clover hay 15.81 16.8 Oats 11.85 28.8 Hay (mean of grasses) 9.40 17.9 Potato 2.81 6.9 Wheat straw 1.79 12.4 Turnip 1.27 1.8 It is especially note-worthy that those varieties of food, which common experience has shewn to promote the fattening of stock to the greatest extent, contain in many instances the smallest quantity of respiratory or fat-forming elements relatively to their nitrogenous compounds. This is especially the case with the different kinds of oil cake, the leguminous seeds, clover, hay, and turnips. On the other hand, in the grains the ratio is nearly that of one to three, or similar to that found in fat cattle; while in the straw, the excess of the respiratory elements is extremely great.