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greemem serves to confirm what is certainly doubtful in thedata assumed here.

By the same mode of calculation, an acre of turnips yield-ing a return of L. 12, should produce 30 stones of beef, ordouble the weight returned by pasture. At 30 tons an acre,this is just one stone avoirdupois of beef for every ton ofturnips. If an ox of 60 stones the four quarters, after beingfed twenty-four weeks, adds 20 stones to his weight, andconsumes, at an average, about 20 stones daily, of white, yel-low, and Swedish turnips in succession, or about one-thirdof his original weight, the proportion between the food con-sumed and the beef returned will be nearly the same. It isprobable that as he gains weight, and advances in fattening,he will eat less in proportion to his weight than at the first,and certainly much less of Swedish , than of common tur-nips *.

It is probable, however, that neither the average of goodfeeding pastures, nor turnips of the weight specified, producequite so much beef, for the following reasons : 1. The profitof the feeder is too high rated at half the rent of pasture, orhalf the price of turnips; onc-tliird may be nearer the truth.This would reduce the value of beef from pasture toL. 5: 6 : 8, equal to nearly 1864 lbs. and that from turnips toL. 10 : 13 : 4, or 373 lbs. Second, there is generally a dif-ference in price, in favour of the fat weight; and to that ex-tent, whatever it may be, beef has not been added to the ori-ginal weight, though that weight has been rendered more

* From some experiments that were confined to the common white turnips,*t has been estimated that 34 tons produce 436 lbs. of beef and tallow, which isNearly 1D lbs. per ton. But then the feeding having been calculated to conti*Hue five months and a half, without any succession of yellow or .Swedish ; thehirnips must have lost much of their nutritive properties for several weeks towardsend of the feeding season. At the same time, it was ascertained that a beast^ stone ate 16 stone of white turnips ; and one of 50 stone, only 12 stone ofSwedish ; so that taking the average of the three kinds of turnips, one ton mayreturn 14 lbs. or 1 stone of beef and tallow.