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siderably to the weekly cost, without affording 

 proper return for the outlay. 



Sheep and cattle partake of it readily; but 

 farmers make a great mistake frequently in not 

 using it with other kinds of nutritive food at a 

 much earlier period, by which many diseases in- 

 cidental to their stock would be avoided. 



Maize or Indian corn has not proved very 

 useful as an article of diet for horses. On the 

 contrary, great derangement and disease have been 

 produced in many stables, principally from the 

 presence of a great quantity of water, as well as 

 having irritative properties. 



Maize contains 11 or 12 per cent, only of 

 nutrition, and forms a very suitable article of diet 

 with many others for pigs, cows, oxen, sheep, Sec. 

 When used for horses the quantity should be 

 small, mixed with an abundance of beans, peas, 

 or lentils, to reduce their stimulative and other 

 properties, and always rejected if not dry and 

 good. 



The locust or carob bean, imported from the 

 East, forms one of the principal ingredients of 

 condimental foods. As an article of diet it is not 

 rich in nutritious or flesh-forming constituents, 

 from 7 to 9 per cent, only being present. The 

 chief ingredients are mucilage and sugar, upon 

 which its fattening properties depend. Nor does 

 it prove digestible. Like beans, peas, Indian 

 corn, and lentils, all of which are enclosed in a 

 strong shell which greatly resists the action of the 



