APPLES AS FOOD FOR ANIMALS. 



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The above table shows at a glance how the food has been 

 utilized. In this case we have — 



Utilized as milk 

 Indigestible matter . 

 Waste of the body 



Weight of food given 



POUNDS. 



17 



57 

 91 



165 



The half-bushel of potatoes and the grass give the solid 

 constituents of the milk ; the water supplies that fluid in the 

 milk. The solid portion of the milk (the caseine, butter- 

 globules, sugar, and ash) amounts to twenty-five ounces ; the 

 butter, about twelve ounces, — the result of feeding thirty 

 pounds of potatoes and fifteen pounds of rich grass. If 

 thirty pounds of potatoes and fifteen pounds of grass give 

 at the best but twelve ounces of butter, what can be obtained 

 at the best .from feeding one bushel, or forty-six pounds, 

 of apples alone ? Compare the results of the analysis, and 

 we reach approximate results of products. It is clear that 

 a bushel of apples of the best ripe kinds fed to milch cows 

 cannot return, by any possibility, more than two or three 

 ounces of " finely flavored butter."' The loose statements 

 made by many farmers as the results of their experiments 

 are not only worthless, but misleading. Thousands of these 

 errors are circulating through the press ; and their influence 

 is not good. 



As regards apples as food for animals, our practical ex- 

 perience in feeding them confirms the results of analysis. 

 They are of soijie value, and, when fed in connection with 

 meal, serve to give zest to the appetite, and keep animals in 



