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FEEDING ANIMALS. 



lieu of milk, let us examine the composition of most of our 

 cereal grains and some by-products that may be used for 

 that purpose. The following analyses of grains, and par- 

 tial products of grains, represent a fair average of their 

 constituents : 



The above table will give the reader a good idea of the 

 composition of most of the foods that may be selected to 

 feed young animals, in lieu of a part or the whole of the 

 milk. These grains are, of course, given ground rhto meal. 

 But if we examine the table with a view of comparing the 

 composition of each with that of milk, we shall find most 

 of them deficient in albuminoids, or muscle-forming mat- 

 ter. It will be remembered that the nitrogenous element 

 of cow's milk is nearly one-third of the whole dry matter, 

 or one to two of the carbonaceous (oil and sugar of milk) ; 

 and that in the milk of the mare and the ewe, the nitro- 

 genous is a little more than one-third of the dry matter. 



But this is simply comparing the absolute weight of the 

 two classes of elements in food, and not fixing the nutritive 



