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ply the daily waste, and that aid the deposition of fat 

 in different parts of the system, are absorbed by 

 the nutrient vessels ; in the other, not only are the 

 materials necessary to supply the daily waste absorbed, 

 but also those requisite for the formation of bone 

 and muscle, and the different tissues of the animal. 



Another condition in the economical keeping and 

 feeding of stock, is' the providing of proper shelter, 

 guarding agamst exposure to cold and driving storms, 

 and keeping your animals in such a state of physical 

 warmth and comfort that a healthful gi-owth shall at 

 no time be arrested. No one who pretends to be a 



It is thus a material point that we use that food which 

 will economize the labor of the animal machine — that 

 is, to convert it into flesh, milk, &c. By bruising 

 grains, £ind cutting fodder, and softening the woody 

 portions of plants, we assist nature to a certain extent, 

 and even render a less amount in bulk adequate to 

 proper nourishment 



humane man will allow his animals to be shivering 

 by the roadside, or trying to get the protection of a 

 fence only, from our cold wintry storms. An ac- 

 quaintance in the central part of this State, two years 

 since constructed six boxes, or stalls, in the cellar 

 of his barn, the barn being situated on a hill side ; 

 the cellar was entirely open to the east. The sides 



