FEEDING. 



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soundness of the views entertained by Baussingalt and 

 Pagen that plants are valuable for giving fat to animals 

 only in proportion to the vegetable oils, ready formed, 

 which such plants contain. 



To make a comparison of the feeding qualities of oats 

 with corn, we give the following table by M. Saussure : 



ANALYSIS OF OATS. 



100. 



Other analyses of oats could be given, although differing 

 somewhat from the above, but not essentially, and all going 

 to prove, however, that the oat is not so valuable for feed- 

 ing animals as maize. Indeed, if there be any fault found 

 with corn as a feed for horses, it is its great fattening 

 qualities and stimulating effects. 



What would the poor of Great Britain have done some 

 years ago, had it not been for the nutritive quality of 

 maize and the happy repeal of the English Corn Law ? 

 No other sort of feed is able to fatten animals so surely 

 and so quickly as Indian corn. Ask the beef and pork 

 packers of the West as to the value of corn, and they will 

 tell you there is no such feed as a flesh and fat producer, 



