Oil 4·41 [+] Albuminous compounds 5·84 Respiratory elements 2·06 Woody fibre 59·38 Ash 6·66 ------ Total matters insoluble in water 78·35 ----- 99·68 Total nitrogen in dry furze 1·46 Total albuminous compounds 9·13 Total respiratory elements 18·20 Total ash 8·36 [+ Containing nitrogen 0·917] _Composition of ash per cent._ Potash 20·00 Phosphoric Acid. 8·72 The results of these analyses show that dry furze contains an amount of nutriment equal to that found in dry grass. The nature of its composition resembles, as might be expected, that of its allied plants, vetches, &c., and therefore it exceeds the grasses in its amount of ready formed fatty matter. SECTION IV. STRAW AND HAY. _Straw._--At the present time, when the attention of the farmer is becoming more and more devoted to the production of meat, it is very desirable that his knowledge of the exact nutritive value of the various feeding substances should be more extensive than it is. No doubt, most feeders are practically acquainted with the relative value of corn and oil-cake--of Swedish turnips and white turnips; but their knowledge of the food equivalents of many other substances is still very defective. For example, every farmer is not aware that Indian corn is a more economical food than beans for fattening cattle, and less so for beasts of burthen. Locust-beans, oat-dust, malt-combings, and many other articles, occasionally consumed by stock, have not, as yet, determinate places assigned to them in the feeder's scale of food equivalents.