908437-190 CONTENT S. PREFACE REFACE, Mifcellaneous Difquifitions, Doubts, and Queries; relating to agriculture, 1. Difquifitions relating to the comparative degree of nourishment afforded by different plants, to all the different kinds of domeftic animals, 3 II. Enquiries, whether many other plants befides thofe of the herbaceous kind, may not be profitably raifed as a crop for food to some of the domeftic animals, 10 II. Ditto, whether or not there are any plants that afford comparatively more abundant nourishment to animals when green or dry; or vice verfa, 27 IV. Ditto relating to the moft oeconomical mode of confuming plants, whether green, or made into hay, VOL. II. 29 V. Enqui V. Enquiries with a view to discover such plants as may be most oeconomically confumed by being cut and VI. Ditto relating to the feafon of the year at which VIII. Ditto relating to the plants that disappear foon after the ground is left out from tillage, or thofe that IX. Difquifitions, with a view to discover if the fame plants that tend to fatten any animal, always in the X Ditto, with a view to know whether those plants that tend to fatten or promote the bodily XI. XI. Enquiries if fome plants may not be noxious to fome kinds of animals, and nourishing and wholefome to others, P. 62 XII. Difquifitions relating to fuch plants as may promote the generative faculty of different animals, 67 XIII. Ditto relating to fuch as may provoke to venery, 68 XIV. Ditto concerning fuch plants as tend to augment the quantity of milk of domestic animals, 71 XV. Ditto relating to those plants that may afford richer milk than others do, 72 XVI. Dittto concerning thofe that may affect the milk with an agreeable flavour, or the reverse, ... 73 XVII. Ditto relating to fuch as tinge the milk or butter with a rich yellow colour, 80 XVIII. Ditto relating to fuch as augment the quantity, or improve the quality of the cheese made from the milk of any animal, 82 XIX. Ditto relating to fuch plants as may affect the tafte of the flesh of fuch animals as may chance to be fed upon them. 84 XX. Difquifitions relating to the peculiarities of climate, and other circumftances neceffary to be attended to by the farmer, to enable him to judge in what circumstances he may probably, expec that plants or animals may be fuccessfully introduced into one country from another, P. 86 XXI. Enquiries, if any kind of food can be improved by any particular way of preparing it, XXII. Ditto, if any kinds of food for domeftic animals can be rendered more nutritive by being compounded, or given along with any other fort of food, or the reverse, 116 XXIII. Ditto, relating to the efficacy of condiments given along with the food of domestic animals, 119 XXIV. Difquifitions relating to the most proper method of preparing the body, or managing domestic animals, fo as to difpofe them to receive the high. eft poffible benefit from the food that shall be given them, 121 XXV. Enquiries, if the fame mode of treatment be equally proper for encreafing the quantity of milk, and for fattening any animal, 123 XXVI. |