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small quantity, and it was given in larger quantities, a 

 gallon to the fifteen cows, or about twelve ounces to a cow, 

 in two feeds once a week. While the effect on the milk 

 was not apparently worth noting, the result upon the 

 cows was quite marked, and had the molasses' been given 

 in the first small quantity every day it is probable that it 

 would have been repaid with profit. 



A useful condimental food for use when the appetite 

 appears weak may be made as follows : linseed meal, 

 j)ure, fifty pounds, brown sugar" ten pounds, corn meal 

 one hundred pounds, ground gentian one pound, ground 

 turmeric one pound, ground ginger one -half a pound, 

 caraway, anise and coriander seed one-quarter of a 

 pound each, finely ground, sulphur two pounds, salt two 

 pounds, cream of tartar one-half a pound, all well mixed. 

 Two pounds of this is given in place of as much corn 

 meal once or twice in a week. This subject should not 

 be dismissed without some remark upon improper foods, 

 or more correctly, injurious substances taken with the 

 foods. Much injury is sometimes done by these un- 

 welcome additions to the food. 



In some investigations for the purpose of testing the 

 effects of various foods upon animals, and the peculiari- 

 ties of the functions of nutrition, it was found that the 

 red color of madder roots, which were cut and minoled 

 with the food, appeared after a time in the bones, which ; 

 became of a pink color. Fowls, pigs, and rj^Jbbits were 

 experimented upon with similar results. In tiie pigs, after 

 a continued feeding, the fat became tinged with pink, 

 while no effect was found upon the flesh, probably from 

 the difficulty of noting any change of tint, by reason of 

 the sameness of the color. 



Such an experiment is not needed to add proof to the 

 fact that food has a very great effect upon the char- 

 acter of the flesh of any animal, and necessarily upon the 

 milk, The flesh and fat of pigs fed upon beech mast is 



