360 [Assembly 



weather be warm ; and animals, that are thin in flesh below a 

 certain point, are always weak. 



The first item, "Beefsteak," represents very fairly the food of 

 the carnivora. Their game is lean and contains very little faty 

 and this condition is connected with their roving habits. They 

 are continually moving to keep warm. For every three pounds 

 of warmth they use, they must work off one pound of motion.. 

 In compensation they have been assigned to warm latitudes and 

 clothed in furs. Cats and dogs are very sensitive to cold ; they 

 never lie down to take a nap in a cold place, and if they were 

 tied in a stable and could be kept as still as cattle in cold weathery 

 they would be chilled to death. The temperature of the carni- 

 vorous animals never rises high enough to produce sensible 

 sweating, and their skins are said to have no pores. 



The second item, " Oats," may be taken in the type of the food 

 of a well fed and steadily worked horse. We notice the vast dif- 

 ference in the heat producing qualities (from 3 to 16), and we 

 conclude, that the Jiorse will be under the necessity of stirring 

 less, 'to keep warm; that the herbivorous are more sluggish in 

 their habits; that they are better adapted to stabling. 



The third item, " Hay," may be takenas the type of the con- 

 dition of a hay fed horse, soft in flesh and not tit for labor. For 

 every pound of nitrogenized matters that he uses in motion, he 

 must dispose of a corresponding surplus of carbonaceous matters, 

 and that is, he must sweat off so much fat. Now, sweat is as all old 

 yonkers believe, a waste of fat, and if we could succeed in bring- 

 ing the good of a horse to such perfection, that he sliould not 

 sweat, we should have reached the ideal of economy. The for- 

 mula for beef steak is, that " ne plus ultra;" but, unfortunatelyy 

 the horse's machinery can never be adopted to that kind of food. 

 His wood stove can not burn coal. 



When we remember that the difference between a hay fed and 

 a grain fed horse lies in the diffierence between the second and 

 third formulas (18 to 16), we conclude, that the gap between the 

 second and the first (16 to 3), is too great for the limits of speCies, 

 and that the mythological flesh eating horses are fiibrications of 



