. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. I3<oK VI. THE TARE. 8-:i three and a to four per acre. In Kent, A. Young tliinks, they probably exceed
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. I3<oK VI. THE TARE. 8-:i three and a to four per acre. In Kent, A. Young tliinks, they probably exceed four quarters; but in Suft'olk, he sliould not estimate them at more than three j yet five or six are not uncommon. 5250. The produce in haulm, in moist seasons, is vciy bulky. 5251. In the application of beans, the grain in Scotland is sometimes made into meal, the finer for bread, and the coarser for swine; but beans are for the most part applied to the puqiose of feeding horses, hogs, and other domestic animals. In the county of Middlesex, all are given to horses, except what are preserved for seed, and such as are podded while green, and sent to the London markets. When pigs are fed with beans, it is observed that the meat becomes so hard as to make very ordinary pork, but good bacon. It is also supposed that the mealmen grind many horse-beans among wheat to be manufactured into bread. 'ti'i'i. The flour of beans is more nntritive than that of oats, as it appears in the fattening of hogs; whence, according to the respective i)rices of these two articles, Dr. Darwin suspects that peas and beans generally supply a cheaper provender lor horses than oats, as well as for other domestic animals. But as the flour of peas and beans is more oily, he believes, than that of oats, it may in general be somewhat more ditficult of digestion ; hence, when a horse has taken a stomachful of peas and beans alrne, he may be less active for an hour or two, as his strength will be more employe
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