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occupations that can be followed on farms, in spite of all 

 competition from all sources and all lands. 



Let me illustrate that still further, because I find that 

 great failure comes to our farmers from not understanding the 

 first principles of feeding. It is not enough to give a cow 

 plenty to eat, unless that plenty be of the right constituents. 

 What would you think of a rich man who wanted to be 

 kind to a poor family, and who sent them abundance of food 

 when they did not have any fuel in the house, and did not 

 send them any fuel ? If they had to use part of the food as 

 fuel in a stove in order to get the benefit of it, that would 

 be a very extravagant practice, would it not? That is what 

 people do to-day who give too large a portion of albumi- 

 noids to their cattle. Or what would you think of a man 

 who sent a family suffering for food a quantity of fuel, but 

 nothing to eat? That is similar to what a man does who 

 gives a cow lots of the fuel portion of food, — the carbo- 

 hydrates, — and not that portion — the albuminoids — which 

 is required to build up the tissues of the body in which the 

 fuel is to be burned. 



Chart No. 4. 

 Composition of Bodies, in Percentages. 



I give you on this chart an illustration of the composition 

 of the animal bodies, showing the average composition of a 

 cow. The l)ody is more than half composed of water, one- 

 sixth of albuminoids, one-fifth of fat and one-twentieth of 



