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health while actually growing fat on sweet whey. The 

 portion of less than one per cent, of albuminous matter 

 prolongs, rather than sustains life. That is to say, the 

 hog will not starve to death quite so quick if fed 

 whey as it will without it. The sugar accumulates in 

 the system as fat, while the hog is slowly perishing of 

 inanition. But if it is thus cruel to feed it alone to full 

 grown animals, it is doubly so to feed it to young and 

 growing animals as pigs and calves the necessities of 

 the lives of which demand tissue-making material as well 

 as life-sustaining. If whey is used, let it be fed sweet, 

 and always with some kind of dry nitrogenous i'ood, as 

 bean meal, oil meal, pea meal, clover, etc. But, with the 

 acid system of cheese-making, it is impossible to do this. 

 The whey is decomposed before run into the whey-vat. 



