246 MR. KARKEEK, AT ST. AUSTELL FARMERS* CLUB. 
diet, containing a large per centage of albumen — are particularly 
required for the growth of the various parts of the body. In the 
rearing of horses in particular, where the object is to produce a 
great development of muscle, the young stock should be sufficiently 
sheltered in the winter, and have a fair allowance of hay, oats, 
peas, &c., which contain from 8 to 20 per cent, of albumen, and it 
is from the want of these requisites that so many thousands of 
horses are yearly rendered altogether worthless. “ The young ani- 
mal,” he said, “ is placed on our globe tolerably perfect from the 
hands of the Creator, but its degeneracy is frequently owing to 
the treatment pursued in the rearing. Only compare a yearling 
colt that has been well housed and properly fed during the winter 
with one that has been turned out and exposed to the weather, and 
fed chiefly on hay, straw, and turnips, the two latter articles con- 
taining little more than 1 per cent, of the fleshing principle, and 
good hay containing 8 per cent, of albumen ; and although equally 
fine and clear in their respective points when separated in the 
autumn, yet they will bear no kind of comparison, either in size 
or beauty, in the spring.’* “ Again,” said he, “ pursue the same 
plan on the following winter, and you fix the shape for life, — the one 
a handsome, clean-grown, muscular animal, the other a coarse and 
plain one. It is by proper feeding, and a proper degree of shelter 
given to the young stock, during the first three winters especially, 
that some horses are got to the high perfection at which we some- 
times see them, having clean limbs, large powerful muscles, and 
good action ; for had those identical colts been kept hard and ex- 
posed to the weather, they would never have attracted any atten- 
tion In the rearing of breeding cattle, the same method of feeding 
was desirable, since the object of the breeder was not to obtain 
fat, but muscle, in which the weight of flesh, strength of consti- 
tution, and the capability of propagating their race chiefly de- 
pended ; while in the rearing of store cattle the same care is not 
required, the object of the feeder in this instance being to obtain 
as much profit as possible from the food which the animals con- 
sume, substances containing fatty matters, such as Swede turnips, 
straw, & c., answering the purpose. Even in this case he wished 
the farmers particularly to understand that nearly the whole of the 
fleshy part of an animal that will afford any profit to them is as- 
similated chiefly during the period of its growth, which depends 
on its age and breed. The addition made to its bulk afterwards 
is chiefly an accumulation of fat which surrounds and is inter- 
mingled with the substance of the muscle ; and, as the animal 
body is incapable of producing an elementary one, such as nitro- 
gen, out of substances that do not contain it, it obviously follows 
that the larger the per centage of these elements contained in the 
