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instead of causing them to fast twelve hours, as 

 before. 



The result is, Mr. Scott has found that the 

 food is more leisurely taken, masticated, and 

 thoroughly digested. 



Besides the saving effected in actual expendi- 

 ture, the reduction of disease and losses by death, 

 is an important item. In repeated visits to the 

 animals in the pits fed upon Mr. Scott's princi- 

 ple, it is due from me to state that I never saw 

 a greater uniformity in condition while the 

 hardest work was being imposed, and cases of 

 indigestion, colic, and death in consequence, were 

 the exception, and of extremely rare occurrence. 



WHAT CONSTITUTES A CHEAP FOOD. 



It is usually considered a cheap mode of feed- 

 ing, when material can be supplied for one penny 

 per pound, and I find several owners base their 

 calculations of cost at this rate. But it must be 

 borne in mind that food costing only one penny 

 per pound is not inevitably an economical food. 

 We must look farther than mere cost. Economy 

 does not consist in price alone, to such must be 

 added the veterinary surgeon's account, whose 

 services in the main will be found to have been 

 occasioned by the supposed economical food, and 

 in addition, the value of the amount wasted by 

 refusal, fermentation, or that which is hastened 



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