APPENDIX TO SECOND EDITION. 



The Principles advocated throughout this 

 Book indorsed by Prof. Knapp, of the Iowa 

 Improved Stock-Breeding Association. 



[From the Tribune of Nov. 3, 1883.] 

 HOW TO RAISE HORSES. ' 



To bring colts to maturity best prepared for many 

 years of usefulness, was a question considered by the 

 Iowa Improved Stock-Breeders' Association. Prof. 

 Knapp said that overfeeding these animals costs the 

 people of the State not less than $15,000,000 per 

 annum.* 



" Two quarts of oats and two ears of corn twice a 

 day is liberal feeding, but the colt would eat twice as 

 much and not be as strong. I have tried it over and 

 over again ; I challenge the world to that contest. 



* Prof. Knapp's estimate of the cost of overfeeding included, it is to be 

 presumed, the injury to health, lost time, and premature death of horses 

 thus treated. Fully a quarter of a million infants (to say nothing of children 

 and adult voluntary gourmands) are stamped out of existence every year in 

 this country alone by this same process. That is, the combined influence of 

 overfeeding and under-exercising (infants being held and wheeled constantly 

 instead of being largely left to their own resources something like other 

 younglings), makes fat, soft (2. e., "ill-conditioned"), and, consequently, 

 short-lived babies. 



See the author's work on Infant Dietetics, " How to Feed the Baby," by 

 C. E. Page, M.D., pages 180, price 50 cents. New York : Fowler & Wells. 



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