398 now TO make the fakm pay. 



expeudod in warming that otherwise cold food after entering 

 the stomach, would be saved to go into flesh; for the animal 

 heat has to be created by this food, and is therefore expended 

 in producing it, and cannot to that extent, of course, make fat 

 or flesh. So also would be saved the amount of food expended 

 in producing the muscular strength and work of the jaws in 

 grinding; for this power has to be furnished from some source, 

 and we hold that the power so produced in the internal system 

 of the animal itself is the dearest possible way of making it. 

 Cooking or warming the food is, therefore, a great economy, 

 much more, we consider, than its additional expense." The 

 trouble with Mr. Allen, and a dozen other writers on this 

 subject whom we might name, is that they follow with long 

 and elaborate descriptions of cooking apparatus, boilers, pipes, 

 etc., which frighten away those who would like to trj^ the 

 experiment. After a man has once tried it and found what an 

 immense improvement it is, he does not hesitate to invest any 

 reasonable amount of time, labor, and money in perfecting it. 

 A CHEAP PEOCESS is what is wanted at first. The following is 

 simple: Line your feed-box with tin or sheet iron, cut your 

 feed, turn on a gallon of boiling hot water for every two 

 bushels of feed : shut on the cover tight, and leave it from two 

 to five hours; it will keep warm over mght. Where more 

 than five animals are to be fed it will pay to have a power 

 cutter. A horse power is a convenient thing to have for a 

 great many purposes on the form. By it hay, straw, stalks, 

 and roots can be cut with very little trouble. A set-kettle just 

 outside the door will heat the water. This can be covered 

 tightly, and a pipe run from it to the feed-box ; this will keep 

 the feed cooking as long as the water is hot. When roots are 

 to be fed, they should be cut up and put into the box with the 

 feed. It is good practice to mix a little bran, meal, or raid- 



