STEAMING FOOD FOR STOCK. 427 



Morton's Cydopcedia of Agriculture (than which there 

 is no higher authority in Europe) says : " As to steaming 

 food for cattle, there is abundant experience to recommend 

 it. The process of cooking renders soluble that which would 

 otherwise be imperfectly digested. It removes, in some 

 cases, what would otherwise be unwholesome ; and it renders 

 savory what would otherwise be distasteful." 



Loudorts Encyclopaedia of Agriculture remarks : " Un- 

 less food be thoroughly deprived of its vegetative powers 

 before it enters the stomach, the whole nourishment which 

 it is capable of affording cannot be derived from it. The 

 most effectual mode of destroying the living principle is by 

 the application of heat, by steaming or boiling." 



The Society of Shakers, at Lebanon, N. Y., famous for 

 pork-raising, say : " For fattening animals, swine particu- 

 larly, we consider three of cooked equal to four of raw 

 meal." 



