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MiscELLANEOUS DiIsqQulISITIONS, Dovusas, and QUERIES, relating to AGRICULTURE.

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T can hardly be doubted, that fome

plants afford more nourifhing food for certain domeftic animals, than others: —The well-inftruéted farmer, therefore, ought to know which of all the plants that are or may be cultivated by him, will fooneft fatten any{pecies of animals that he may have it in his power to rear; as alfo the comparative degree of nourifh- ment afforded by each of thefe plants to each fpecies of animals refpeétively.—

- Wanted, on this account, an exaét lift of

all the plants that willbe eaten by, and may be employed as food for cattle*, arrang- * Cattle is here employed as a general term, denoting

all the animals ef the cow(or Bos) kind.

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