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leaving the natural heat producing material to be disposed of by 

 the liver. The habit of using it may be readily induced in most 

 people, and once induced leads to disease and death. For such 

 reasons as these, upwards of two thousand English physicians 

 have lately said : 



" That total and universal abstinence from alcoholic beverages 

 of all sorts would greatly contribute to the health, the prosperity, 

 the morality, aud the happiness of the human race." 



COOKING FOOD FOR ANIMALS. 



Professor Mapes— Raw food is not in condition to be approxi- 

 mated to the tenures of aaimal life. The experiment often tried 

 has proved that eighteen or nineteen pounds of cooked corn is 

 equal to fifty pounds of raw corn for hog feed. Mr. Mason, of 

 New Jersey, proved that pork fed with raw grain cost 12i cents a 

 pound, and that from cooked food 4^ cents. Cooked corn stalks 

 are as soft and almost as nutritious fcs green stalks. It is an im- 

 provement thai pays. Cattle can be fatted at about half the ex- 

 pense upon cooked food in a warm stable, that others can out 

 doors fed upon raw food. I would not cook food for horses. 

 Carrots are valuable for horses, because they assist food to gela- 

 tinize. For oxen 30 quarts of corn meal boiled in 60 gallons of 

 water, and poured over cut corn stalks, made excellent feed. 

 It is well known that hogs fatten fast that follow cattle fed with 

 whole corn. In all stables a great deal more food than we can 

 afford to lose, passes off undigested and goes into the manure pile. 

 It is poor economy to feed hogs or horned cattle on any kind of 

 raw grain. All coarse feed should be chopped, and corn stalks 

 in particular are increased in value very much by steaming. 



Solon Robinson said, that a person in Indiana told him that he 

 confined two hogs in a narrow pen — one forward of the other — 

 and fed the first with whole corn, leaving the other to live as he 

 could upon the meal ground by the one ahead of him. The re- 

 sult was that the one in the rear fatted first. 



Professor Mapes said that so much of the corn consumed by 

 the first passed through undigested, that the one in the rear ob- 

 tained his food ground aud_partially cooked. 



