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THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



the formation of muscle and fat, the albumen 

 indicating the muscle-forming principle: 



Albumen. Unazotized Matter. 



100 lbs. Flesh, 25 



100 lbs. Blood, 20 



100 lbs. Peas, 22 51£ 



100 lbs. Beans, 31 52 



100 lbs. Lentils, 33 48 



100 lbs. Potatoes, 2 24| 



100 lbs. Oats, 10£ 68 



100 lbs. Barley-meal, 14 68 



100 lbs. Hay, 8 6S£ 



100 lbs. Turnips, 1 9 



100 lbs. Carrots, 2 10 



100 lbs. Red beet, 1J 8£ 



The analyses in this table, are partly the re- 

 sult of Dr. Playfair's, and Boussingault's ana- 

 lyses. The albumen series indicates the flesh- 

 forming principles, and the unazotized series 

 indicates the fat-forming principles. By com- 

 paring this table with the former, it will be seen 

 which foods contain not only the greatest quan- 

 tity of organic matter, but what proportion of 

 this organic matter is nutritive, and which is 

 fattening, or that which furnishes combustible 

 material. In cold weather, these foods be given 

 which contain the larger proportion of unazo- 

 tized matters, in order to sustain the heat of the 

 body. Thus it will be seen, that potatoes are 

 good for fattening, but bad for fleshening. Lin- 

 seed cake contains a great deal of fattening 

 matter, and but little nutritive matter; hence 

 barley-meal, which contains a good deal of al- 

 bumen, may be advantageously mixed with it. 

 Dumas, a French chemist, states that the prin- 

 ciples of fat exist in vegetables, as in hay and 

 maize; and that, like albumen, it is deposited 

 in the tissues unchanged. But Liebig regards 

 fat as transformed sugar, starch, gum, &c, 

 which has undergone a change in the process 

 of digestion. This is why linseed cake is fat- 

 tening; all the oil is squeezed out of the seed, 

 but the seed-coat — which contains a great deal 

 of gum and the starch of the seed— is left, and 

 these are fattening principles. 



The oxygen, introduced by respiration into 

 the lungs, is destined for the destruction of car- 

 bonaceous matter; but there is a provision made 

 for taking it into the stomach with the food, and 

 this is done by the saliva. The saliva is always 

 full of bubbles, which are air bubbles, and carry 

 the oxygen of the atmosphere into the stomach 

 with the food. The object of rumination in ani- 

 mals, is the more perfect mixing of the food 

 with the oxygen of the air. This is why chaff 

 should not be cut so short for ruminating, as for 

 non-ruminating animals, as the shorter the chaff 

 is, the less it is ruminated, and the less oxygen 

 it gets. — Mark Lane Express. 



Ring Worm may be, in most cases, simply 

 cured by scratching around the outer surface 



with the point of a sharp needle. The disease 

 will not pass the line, if the skin is thus cut. 



Selected. 



SEED WHEAT. 



We received last year from the Patent Office 

 a variety of seeds, which we distributed amongst 

 our friends. Mr. George Wood fin got a paper 

 of wheat, marked " Kloss' White Blue Stem," 

 and he brought us a few days since a sample of 

 the product. It is certainly one of the largest^ 

 whitest, and plumpest grains we ever saw. Mr. 

 Wood fin considers it much more productive than 

 the Red May, which he sowed at the same 

 time, it being inclined to tiller more, and the 

 head being longer and fuller. Mr. Woodfin is 

 very desirous to procure several bushels of the 

 seed, and through the politeness of the Agent 

 at the Patent Office (in the absence of Mr. Ells- 

 worth) we have probaLly put him on the track 

 of obtaining it. 



The sample at the office is for distribution. 



CHICKEN MANUFACTORY. 



Nature is getting superfluous. We rather 

 think she will soon be voted out of fashion and 

 dispensed with. There is a chap just over our 

 publication office hatching chickens in a big 

 box, fifty a day, having a thousand eggs always 

 doing. The trouble of attending them is slight, 

 the heat costs very little, and the chickens crack 

 their several shells and walk up to their dough 

 and water like wood-choppers to dinner or sailors 

 to their grog. They are clean, strong and lively, 

 grow fast and rarely die, (not being dragged 

 through the grass;) and whoever has a hatch- 

 ing machine can have "spring chickens 1 ' every 

 week in the year, and at small expense. If we 

 could only invent a machine to lay eggs now, 

 hens would be done with. — JYew York Tribune. 



AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION. 



Great preparations are making for the exhibi- 

 tion of the New York State Agricultural So- 

 ciety, which is to be held at Poughkeepsie, on 

 the 18th of September next. Of all the exhi- 

 bitions that we have ever witnessed, in the North 

 or the South, none begin to compare with those 

 of the New York Society. It seems to be un- 

 derstood that the one to be held this fall is to 

 eclipse all its predecessors. 



We would sincerely recommend any farmer 

 who can spare the time and the means, to visit 



