The American Reformed Cattle Doctor Containing the necessary information for preserving the health and curing the diseases of oxen, cows, sheep, and swine, with a great variety of original recipes, and valuable information in reference to farm and dairy management

Part 29

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+------+------+-------+---------+-------+---------+--------- Articles|Weight|Weight| | | | | Salts of food.|in the|in the|Carbon.|Hydrogen.|Oxygen.|Nitrogen.| and |fresh | dry | | | | | earthy |state.|state.| | | | |matters. --------+------+------+-------+---------+-------+---------+--------- Hay, | 7500| 6465 | 2961.0| 323.2 | 2502.0| 97.0 | 581.8 Oats, | 2270| 1927 | 977.0| 123.3 | 707.2| 42.4 | 77.1 Water, | 16000| -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 13.3 --------+------+------+-------+---------+-------+---------+--------- Total,| 25770| 8392 | 3938.0| 446.5 | 3209.2| 139.4 | 672.2 --------+------+------+-------+---------+-------+---------+---------

EXCRETIONS OF A HORSE IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.

+------+------+-------+---------+-------+---------+-------- |Weight|Weight| | | | | Salts Excretions. |in the|in the|Carbon.|Hydrogen.|Oxygen.|Nitrogen.| and |fresh | dry | | | | | earthy |state.|state.| | | | |matters. --------------+------+------+-------+---------+-------+---------+-------- Urine, | 1330| 302 | 108.7| 11.5 | 34.1 | 37.8 | 109.9 Excrements, | 14250| 3525 | 1364.4| 179.8 |1328.9 | 77.6 | 574.6 | | | | | | | --------------+------+------+-------+---------+-------+---------+-------- Total, | 15580| 3827 | 1472.9| 191.3 |1363.0 | 115.4 | 684.5 --------------+------+------+-------+---------+-------+---------+-------- Total of first| | | | | | | part of this| 25770| 8392 | 3938.0| 446.5 |3209.2 | 139.4 | 672.2 table, | | | | | | | --------------+------+------+-------+---------+-------+---------+-------- Difference, | 10190| 4565 | 2465.1| 255.2 |1846.2 | 24.0 | 12.3 --------------+------+------+-------+---------+-------+---------+--------

The weights in these tables are given in grammes. 1 gramme is equal to 15.44 grains Troy, very nearly.

It will be seen from these tables that a large proportion of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and earthy matters are again returned to the soil. From this we infer that more of these matters being present in the food than were requisite for the purpose of assimilation, they were removed from the system in the form of excrement. Two suggestions here present themselves for the consideration of the farmer, viz., that the manure increases in value in proportion to the richness of food, and that more of the latter is often given to a cow than is necessary for the manufacture of healthy chyle.

In view, then, of preventing "bone disorder," which we have termed _indigestion_, we should endeavor to ascertain what articles are best for food, and learn, from the experience of others, what have been universally esteemed as such, and, by trying them on our own animals, prove whether we actually find them so. Scalded or boiled food is better adapted to the stomach of animals than food otherwise prepared, and is so much less injurious. The agents that act on the internal system are those which, in quantities sufficient for an ordinary meal, supply the animal system with stimulus and nutriment just enough for its wants, and contain nothing in their nature inimical to the vital operations. All such articles are properly termed food. (For treatment, see _Hide-bound_, p. 196.)

FOOTNOTE:

[30] Whenever there is a deficiency of carbon, bone meal may assist to support combustion in the lungs, and by that means restore healthy action of the different functions, provided, however, the digestive organs, aided by the vital power, can overcome the chemical action by which the atoms of bone meal are held together.

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