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again differing from the first in tlieir relative composition. The 

 only flesh, usually, at the farmer s disposal is that of animals ac 

 cidentally dying, or, near cities, the refuse of the slaughter 

 houses. A dead animal, if large, should be cut to pieces, and 

 mixed with six or eight? times its weight of peat, muck, earth, 

 or even barn-yard manure ; with plaster and salt ; being shel 

 tered from the rain ; the whole of which will be converted into 

 a very rich compost. A horse will supply sufficient ammonia 

 to grow an acre of wheat. 



681. An ox, on the average, yields of 



Saleable meat - 53 per cent jj Tallow, - - 8 per cent 

 Skiu, - 51 , per cent. 



The marketable meat contains, 



Drv bone, 10 per cent Muscle, with blood, lyraph c 16 p. ct. 



Cellular tissue & fat 5 &quot; Water, - - 71 &quot; 



The chemical composition of flesh and blood is almost identi 

 cal, so that blood may be called liquid flesh, and vice versa; the 

 solid or liquid state being more dependent upon structure than 

 upon the amount of water blood only containing 3 per cent 

 more water than flesh. 



G82. Ultimate analysis of Dry Beef (A,) and Dry Ox Blood, 

 (B.) (Playfair and Beekman.) A B 



Carbon, - - 51.83 51.96 



Hydrogen, - - - 7.57 7.25 



Nitrogen, 15.01 15.07 



Oxygen, - 21.37 21.30 



Ashes - 4.22 4.42 



683. Inorganic analysis of the Blood of the Ox (A,) Calf (B,) 



and Sheep (C.) (EnderUn.) ABC 



Phosphate of Soda - 1G.77 30.18 13.30 



Chloride of Sodium, - 59.34? EOC - cnc - 



Chloride of Potassium, - 6.12 ] 5 ^ 65 bfa 57 



Sulphate of Soda, 3.85 2.94 5.38 



Phosphates of lime and magnesia, - 419 3.49? 10 QO 



Oxide and phosphate of iron, - 8.28 9.23 



Gypsum and loss, - - 1.45 1.46 0.83 



