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from them he will learn the wants of his animals, and 

 learn to supply them. 



189. It is almost as important that animals should 

 be kept warm in winter, and have cool shades to re- 

 sort to in summer, as that they should have plenty of 

 food. The food that will keep one of them growing, 

 when comfortable, will at best only keep him station- 

 ary, if suffering with cold. So it is with regard to 

 other matters of comfort. A swine, for instance, finds 

 it very comfortable to wallow in filth. He should be 

 provided for, accordingly. But he finds it very un- 

 comfortable to be confined to such lodgings; and if so 

 confined, he will not pay for his keeping. No animal 

 loves better to retire to a snug, dry nest. This should 

 always be furnished for him. A swine that, is kept 

 shivering in his own filth, will eat out during one of 

 our long cold winters twice what his body will be 

 worth in the spring, when if he had been kept warm 

 and dry, he would have paid for his keeping, and the 

 owner might have sold his pork at a fair profit. Per- 

 haps no maxim is more manifestly true, than that duty 

 and interest both concur in requiring a kind attention 

 to the wants of domestic animals. The individual 

 who is slow to perceive, and slower to minister to these 

 wants, will find the inmates of the farm-yard 'poor pay- 

 masters, 



THE FEEDING O^ ANIMALS. 



190. Common salt is essential to all animals. As it 

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forms a constituent of soils, and enters from the soil 



