The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-12-15 00:00:00

WHEAT AS FOOD.
PEI:Wm no question is of more interest to the
winter grazier just at present, than that of the feeding
and market value of wheat. There is plenty of wheat
being sold at and under ztos. per qr., or rather less
than Lb ° per ton. Barley for malting purposes is on
the whole higher than wheat, but grinding and distill-
samples, sold at 324. per gr., are still perhaps
fully as elnup, if not a dumper food. The comparative
value of the two grains, and of [instal-cake, is thus
given in Mow Crop Grow Macmillan% 1866) :

Wheal /wig 1,166666'
(milder) • cake.
--
- -
14.4 14.$ , 11 6
3341 431
10 2 3 7.6
13.0 0.0 23.3
07.6 as.g I 41.3
30 5.5 11.0
1.6 24 10.0

I inpulic tuaUcr
Allnunt”olds

I.lrbo-hpire—tee, ie.
Crude Obey
Fa, Ike .

Although wheat lets an evident advantage over
barley so far as crude fibre, hydro-carbons, and
albuminoids are concerned, it is deficient in fat, but
on the whole, the prictsi must approximate nearer yet
before wheat can be declared a cheaper food than
barley. The rnse of wheat Venn, linseed cake is less
easily decided. Thus taking average analyses of
both substances from the source of information already
mentioned, we have the above-given result.
It will be (liner:All that in total organic matter the
linseed cake is inferior to both wheat aud barley, crude
fibre and ash constituting 19 per cent. of the entire
cake. We ask special attention to the carbo-hydratec
alliuminoids, and fat, as the three classes of
constituents by which the value of the three sub-
stances may be tested. Adding these together we
have the following relative percentages in the three
Foods:-

......, .
Linseed cake . tuft
. .. .. .
Wheat is, therefore, richer than oilcake in the sum
total of these three most important food elements but i
we must not fail to notice that in fat the oilcalte is I
seven times as rich as wheat. I
In albuntinoids, also, the linseed cake has a great
advantage, and from this item alone we shall not IN:
far wrong in judging that the comparative value of
the manure made from wheat and linseed cake will
closely follow the proportion in which albuminoids
exist in the two substances. This being the case, we
are not disposed to give the tar to wheat, even at
40, per gr., as a stock food in comparison with
""0.41 cake, where the tenant hopes to realise the
f"'"I consumed by his Mock in the form of increased
corn corps. MI here however, a tenint is under
notice to ilull, and has no means of recovering for
cake and corn consumed he probably would be
justified in usin"
linseed cake. ''''
wheat or other meal rather than

IDORSET FARM NOTES.
It is lune safe to affirm that the breadth of wheat
''wit this autumn is equal to that of last year, most
farmers having no inclination to alter their regular
rotation of crops. The sowing had everything in its
favour, and generally there is a Food plant. Vetches,
rye, and Winter barley are looking very well, and the
pastures are still full of grass. Roots are good, and
especially turnipss, for which the autumn 'has In.-en
remarkably suitable. but should hard weather set in
now, and last for a month or two, it is difficult to see
how some people u ill eke out their small—very small
—stock of hay.

CALTION. —NOW% Rcr.uirTk SONS beg to caution tb°
public against imitation square blue, of very infertile
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in Princeun.
of
and trade mark.
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colouri.-1 with l'r.iwiali blue. ly PURY and.frre frost the
turn.ric,,llll 3 11l I l ler3l omit nth fiend faring'
low
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