for i\)t l)cmn 0 . 
DON’T LET MOTHER DO IT. 
Daughter, don't let mother do it! 
Do not let her slave and toil. 
While you sit a useless idler, 
fearing your soft hands to soil; 
Don't you see the heavy burdens, 
Daily Bhe Is wont to hoar, 
Briug the lines upon her forehead, 
Sprinkle silver in her hair ? 
Daughter, don't let mother do it! 
Do not let her bake or broil, 
Through the long, bright summer hours, 
Share with her the heavy toil. 
See, her eye has lost Its brightness, 
faded from her cheek the glow; 
And the step that once was buoyant 
Now is feeble, tired and slow. 
Daughter, don't let mother do it! 
She has eared for you so long, 
Is It right the weak and feeble 
Should be tolling for the strong? 
Waken from your listless languor, 
Seek her side to cheer and bless, 
Aud your grief will bo less bitter 
When t lie sods above her press. 
Daughter, don't let mother do It! 
You will never, never know 
What were home without a mother 
Till that mother Ueth low ; 
Low beneath the budding daisies, 
Free from earthly care aud pain ; 
To the home, so sad without her, 
Never to return again. 
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FARMING FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, 
No. 44. 
HENRY STEWART. 
ANIMAL WASTES. 
We all know that an animal lives by means 
of food; but it is not. so well known how the 
animal is supported by the food it eats, nor 
how the food is consumed and disposed of in 
the animal system. A very smail portion of 
it is changed to flesh and fat, arid in those ani¬ 
mals which give milk, another portion is 
changed into milk and butter. The rest of it 
disappears, being used to enable the ani¬ 
mal to live and move. The whole of the 
food that is digested goes to make blood and 
the blood is the source from which every part 
of the animal is formed. It will be enough to 
state this fuct without trying to explain 
how the blood is made; what we want 
to know just now is how much of the food 
which the animal turns into blood, or in fact 
how much of the blood, is changed into sub¬ 
stances that the farmer can dispose of or sell 
and how much goes to merely sustain the ani¬ 
mal. As this division of the food varies 
very much in different kinds and breeds 
aud conditions of animals, it is right that this 
subject should be well studied by young far¬ 
mers, so that they may know what portion of 
the f cod is wasted or spent without profit and 
what part of it comes back to them. For a 
man may have two cows, and one of these 
may give him but half a pound of butter in a 
day while the other may give him a pound, or 
even more, and yet consume no more food 
than the first one. It is easy to see that a l’ar 
mer would get ten pounds a day of butter 
from 20 cows of the one kind, and ten or more 
pounds a day from but ten cows of the other 
kind; and the butter from the ten cows would 
then cost only half as much as that from the 
20. If the twenty cows gave the farmer a 
living, the ten cows would make him rich; 
and this is only one example of how a farmer 
may lose or make money by well understand¬ 
ing his business. 
The blood is expended in three wayst one in 
furnishing heat and warmth to the animal ;the 
sec aid in providing new material as flesh,skin, 
hair etc , for that which is used up by the ani 
mal; the third in producing what are known 
as farm products, as milk, butter, fat meat, 
wool, etc. An animal cau exist only when its 
blood is at a certain temperature; which is 
from 08 to 100 degrees. But the air is always 
colder than this and the body is always cool¬ 
ing on the outside; heat going from it into the 
air. This loss is made up by the blood which 
carries the heat from the lungs to the skin 
equally upon all parts of the body. To pro¬ 
duce the heat in the luugs the animal breathes 
in air: aud the oxygen of the air combines or 
unites with the carbon in the blood and these 
together form carbonic acid, which is breathed 
out from the lungs. This union produces heat 
just as the carbon of wood or coal unites with 
the oxygen of the air which rushes into the 
stove when the wood or coal is burned, and 
gives out beat, with carbonic acid. The 
two processes are precisely alike iu kind 
and effect and the one is as really a burning 
of the food, as the other is a burning of the 
fuel. There is of course a waste; and this 
waste consumes considerably more than half 
of the food consumed. 
There is another waste which is the repair¬ 
ing of the worn out parts of the body. Koran 
animal wears away its substance, quite as 
much as a machine wears out, by its motion; 
every motion causing a waste. And the blood 
repairs this waste by carrying to every part 
of the body new material and removing the 
worn out substance. A portion of the food is 
consumed in this way, more being required 
when the animal works hard and less as it 
may spend its time in idleness and rest. 
It is thus seen that an animal needs a cer¬ 
tain quantity of food to merely support its 
life; and iu a state of nature when this is 
eaten the animal is satisfied. This demand is 
in fact the measure of its appetite.and no ani¬ 
mal will eat food in excess of its natural wants 
aud only when it is hungry; and it is hungry 
when its system needs material to provide for 
its repair and support. But the farmers busi¬ 
ness is to induce his animals to eat as much 
more than this as he can, and the quantity 
which he can thus induce them to consume is 
the material which he can work up so as to 
make a profit out of it. Now we would like 
to know how much food an animal can thus 
use with profit. 
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NOTE. 
The members of the dull have another rich 
treat in store for them in the near future. 
W e are going to devote our n ext special number 
to them and to their interests. We shall have 
an original plan for a children’s flower garden 
by one of the Cousins; an interesting discus¬ 
sion on the culture of the peanut; some inter¬ 
esting articles written expeeially for this 
number on topics pertaining to the young 
people; to be followed by " Letters from the 
Cousins.” In the next issue of the Rural I 
shall announce the name of the prize-winner 
in the “ History ” contest. U. M. 
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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark Our pinks were 
splendid. Some grape seeds we planted did 
not come up UDtil they had been in the ground 
a year, but then we had 16 nico ones, besides 
17 others grown from cutting by directions 
given in the Rural. The Red-buds did not 
come up, but they were kept damp and cover¬ 
ed with glass for four mouths. The aspara¬ 
gus grew nicely, and we have a large bed of 
it; the celery was splendid. We sowed it in 
a box and then transplanted it into the gar¬ 
den. If it had not been so dry we should have 
had all we could have used. We have seeds 
enough for next year. Bertha Robbins. 
Lacona, N, Y. 
Dear Uncle Mark I have been reading 
the letters from the cousins in the Rural, 
and have been very much interested, so I 
thought I would like to be enrolled on your 
list of nephews aud nieces. My father sub¬ 
scribed for the Rural, with the Inter-Ocean, 
last Spring. We moved into this state in the 
Kpriug of ’74, from Newark, New Jersey, and 
have had our share of rough times since we 
have been here. For the first three years the 
grasshoppers eat up nearly everything. The 
crops w ere very light last season on account 
of the dry weather. I think my letter is long 
enough for the first. We all like the Rural, 
and are very much disappointed if it does not 
arrive on time. Jennie E. Liese. 
Gage Valley, Neb. 
Dear Uncle Mark I like to read the 
Cousins’ letters very much, and I wish there 
were more of them to read. We have a pet 
deer, and her name is Mary. My brother Ed¬ 
die caught her when she was a little fawn. 
She was spotted white and brown, and she 
would jump up on the bed and lie down. She 
comes into the house and will eat out of our 
hands. One day she came to the house, and a 
wild deer came with her, and papa shot it, 
She will bite off all the bright flowers she can 
get. I am going to have a little garden next 
Summer and I will plant iu it_the seeds that 
you send me. Flora M. Terson. 
Williamsburgh, Va. 
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