LIEBIG REVIEWED. 
421 
100 tbs. 
Albumen — 
Azotized. 
Ncm-azotized. 
W ater. 
Ashes. 
lbs. 
ibs. 
lbs. 
fbs. 
Peas 
29 
514 
16 
^2 
Beans 
31 
514 
14 
34 
Lentils 
33 
48 
16 
3 
Potatoes 
2 
25 
72 
1 
Oats 
11 
68 
18 
3 
Barley-meal 
14 
684 
154 
2 
Hay 
8 
684 
16 
74 
Turnips 
1 
9 
89 
1 
Carrots 
2 
10 
87 
1 
Red Beet 
H 
84 
89 
1 
From this table it must be immediately perceived that the diet 
most valuable for rearing animals intended for great muscular 
exertion, are peas, beans, oats, and hay. Labour consists in re- 
peated muscular contractions ; and no muscular effort can be per- 
formed without the expenditure of muscular fibre. One of the 
principal elements of muscle is nitrogen, which is supplied with 
watery muscle from the blood in the form of albumen, which is 
the starting-point for the various tissues. This explains a fact 
already established by practical men, uniting, as it were, “ prac- 
tice with science.” It is by proper feeding, besides sufficient 
shelter given to the young stock during the first three winters, 
that some horses are got to such perfection as we sometimes see 
them in, having clean limbs, large powerful muscles, and good 
action ; while, had those very animals been kept hard and ex- 
posed to the weather, they would scarcely have attracted any 
attention. 
For colts, that food is preferable which contains, in addition to 
a great quantity of fibrine, the largest quantity of phosphate of 
lime. The corn-seeds — wheat, barley, and oats — and the red clover 
among grasses, are valuable articles of food on this account. 
It has been suggested by Professor Johnstone, of Durham, that, 
as in many cases corn is too expensive a food, and these kinds of 
corn do not exactly agree in other respects with horses (we mean 
barley and wheat) that bone-dust or bone-meal should be given 
as an article of general food for growing animals. There are many 
things which look well in theory that will not bear the test of prac- 
tice ; but, should this succeed, we might then hope to minister 
directly to the weak limbs of the young stock, and at pleasure pro- 
vide the spare-boned colt with the materials out of which limbs of 
greater strength might be built up. 
[To be continued.] 
