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the saliva, and more perfectly masticated by the 

 grinders. 



The beast having chewed the cud, swallows it, and 

 it now passes into the maniples, to be reduced to a 

 still finer pulp, and incorporated with the fluid secreted 

 in that stomach. The alimentary mass is gradually 

 pressed from the manyplies into the true digesting sto- 

 mach, the maw, in which it undergoes a change thai 

 is absolutely necessary to the separation of the nutri- 

 tious part from it. The food, after being detained 

 some time in the maw for this purpose, is expelled into 

 the intestines, and in them the digestive process is 

 completed. 



In the intestines it becomes intimately mixed with 

 the bile and other secretions, which produce a further 

 decomposition in it, the result of which is the separa- 

 tion of the nutritious from the excrementitious part, 

 which action is going on throughout the long track of 

 the intestinal gut, or canal. 



The nutritious fluid extracted from the food, is of a 

 white, or milk-like colour, and is termed chyle. This 

 chyle is taken up by myriads of minute vessels, and 

 conveyed at length to the left jugular vein, and there 

 it mixes with the mass of blood to supply that waste 

 which the body is continually sustaining from the ne- 

 cessary actions of life ; while the excrementitious part 

 is propelled along the intestinal canal, and at last ex- 

 pelled the body. 



THE UDDER. 



The connexion subsisting between the fourth sto- 

 mach and the udder of the cow, is so intimately blend- 

 ed, that the one cannot be affected without the other 

 being materially influenced : hence we may see the 

 necessity there is of feeding cattle properly, and in 



