substance which would be left, as ashes, if the 

 body were burnt, and which no animal can 

 live without, so a small percentage is neces- 

 sary in food stuffs; protein, a complex group 

 of substances which contain nitrogen, and are 

 represented by lean meat, tendons, ligaments, 

 nerves, skin and brain; fat, which is created 

 from any surplus of digested food, over and 

 above the absolute requirements of the body's 

 maintenance. 



It will not do to feed an excess of any one 

 component of the body during the growing 

 age, except in the case of milk cows and lay- 

 ing hens, which require an excess of protein, 

 or, as it is often called, nitrogenous food. 



Our system is to turn out to pasture, or feed 

 timothy and pea, or soy bean hay, according 

 to the season of the year at which they cease 

 to be babies, and keep them on fodder or 

 pasture, supplementing in fall off in grass, 

 through drought or change of season, with 

 green fodder or ensilage; for it does not 

 pay to allow young cattle to be checked, and 



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