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It will be noted that neither of these foods is as nutri- 

 tious as linseed-cake ; but they compare favorably, except 

 in an excess of albuminoids and sugar, with corn-meal. 

 This large proportion of sugar explains an important point 

 in condimental foods. It seems that these compounders 

 had noted the fact, that animals are very fond of sweet 

 foods. The author became aware of this many years ago, 

 and employed sugar, in the form of cheap molasses, not 

 only as an appetizer, but as an excellent fattening food. It 

 is well known that a horse is very fond of his lump of 

 sugar; and cattle, pigs, and sheep are equally fond of it. 

 Sugar is wholly carbonaceous; and although it is more 

 easily digested than the carbo-hydrates of the grains and 

 grasses, yet it can only be used properly with some other 

 very nitrogenous food. Take the best quality of clover-hay, 

 which has an excess of albuminoids, and a small quantity 

 of molasses will give a remarkable relish to the clover for 

 cattle ; so that they may be rapidly fattened upon merely 

 clover and molasses. We have had steers gain, in Septem- 

 ber, three pounds live-weight per day upon 28 Ibs. of early- 

 cut and well-cured clover-hay sweetened with three pints, 

 or four pounds, of sorghum molasses. Nine pounds of 

 cut clover-hay were moistened with six quarts of water, in 

 which had been dissolved one pint of molasses. This feed 

 was given three times daily. This experiment was tried on 

 six steers for forty days. Let us see how this ration com- 

 pares with the German standard for cattle weighing 1,100 

 Ibs. Twenty-eight pounds of best clover-hay has, of dry 

 organic substance, 21.42 Ibs., and 4 Ibs. of sorgham 2.80 

 Ibg. making 24.22 Ibs.; of albuminoids, the clover has 

 2.99 Ibs., molasses none ; of carbo-hydrates, clover has 10.52 

 Ibs , the molasses 2.80 Ibs.- making 13.32 Ibs.; of fat, clover 

 has .58 Ibs., and molasses none. It will be seen that the 

 carbo-hydrates are deficient nearly 3 Ibs., the other two 

 elements not quite so much; but this ration, although 

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