12 Development and Maintenance. 



life and early periods of youth. It is then we 

 find the great demands upon the system in order 

 to complete the formation and building up of the 

 whole body. Every one almost knows that much 

 more food than ordinarily is consumed by the 

 pregnant mare or cow, and that the young 

 animal consumes much food of a nutritious 

 quality without the appearance being in all cases 

 obviously benefited thereby. 



These illustrations serve to show the great 

 demands for blood, bone, muscle, skin, hair, 

 hoof, tendons, &c. &c., and a moment's reflection 

 will cause one to pause and wonder how some 

 persons can really expect to make a horse, cow, 

 or other animal upon the quantities of miserable 

 rubbish which are put in the poor creatures' way 

 when young. 



How they can witness their colts and calves 

 standing without cover in an empty straw-yard 

 or bare pasture in the cold and rain during the 

 winter, and expect the grass of the coming sum- 

 mer will make up for the previous starvation, is 

 indeed a paradox. It appears quite sufficient 

 with some that a horse should taste corn only 

 when he is able to earn it, and cattle when they 

 commence to give milk, or there are prospects 

 of their being useful to the butcher. 



All this is mistaken policy. The young horse 

 or ox requires ample food for the building up of 

 the frame, and we discern the wise provision of 

 nature in furnishing the rich elements in the 



