System at the Londonderry Collieries. 8? 



course carrying with it some of the most useful 

 soluble principles of the food.* 



The process of steaming food may answer well 

 where inferior food and hay abound, cattle are 

 to be fed, and aged dependants require some 

 light employment. But as applied to good food, 

 and carried out in the manner alluded to, it is a 

 complete farce, a useless addition to expenditure 

 which, by the bye, is not made to appear in 

 connection with the feeding and deprivation to 

 the hard-working animals. In fact, the whole 

 system of feeding is no better, hence the number 

 of cases of colic and indigestion, rapid falling 

 away in condition, diabetes, &c,, &c., which occur, 

 and not being required to be reported at head- 

 quarters nothing is known of them. But if the 

 gentlemen who attempt to feed horses without 

 visiting them at their work or in their stables, 

 and others who rule with pens and ink in a com- 

 fortable office, had to ride off at all hours in all 

 kinds of weather three, six, eight, or ten miles, 

 descend a coal-mine, remain in the heated at- 

 mosphere several hours, and take the place of 

 their coachman outside the conveyance in the 

 cold night air, after influences equal to a severe 



* In a visit to a large estate owned by a noble earl, where 

 feeding is supposed to be conducted upon scientific principles, 

 steamed food forms a large item for cattle. After the process is 

 carried sufficiently far the food is removed, and the fluid accu- 

 mulated from the condensed steam, containing useful soluble 

 matters, is allowed to drain away in the gutter, while the ani- 

 mals are supplied with water for drinking. Cui bono 1 



