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Domestic Animals: History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. — John Shaqi

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Domestic Animals: History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy.

Name: Domestic Animals: History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy.
Author: Allen, Richard Lamb

Allen, Richard Lamb

Domestic animals

The cow was foddered with after-math, hay, and potatoes; the horse with
the same hay and oats. The quantities of forage were accurately weighed,
and their precise degree of moistness and their composition were
determined from average samples. The water drunk was measured, its
saline and earthy constituents having been previously ascertained. The
excrementitious matters passed, were of course collected with the
greatest care; the excrements, the urine, and the milk were weighed, and
the constitution of the whole estimated from elementary analyses of
average specimens of each. The results of the two experiments are given
in the table on the next page.

The oxygen and hydrogen that are not accounted for in the sum of the
products have not disappeared in the precise proportions requisite to
form water; the excess of hydrogen amounts to as many as from 13 to 15
dwts. It is probable that this hydrogen of the food became changed into
water by combining during respiration with the oxygen of the air."


FOOD CONSUMED BY THE HORSE IN 24 HOURS.

  Key to columns:
  [F] = Forage.
  [W] = Weight in the wet state
  [D] = Weight in the dry state

  -----+---+-------+-----------------------------------------------------------
       |   |       |             Elementary Matter in the Food.
   [F] |[W]|  [D]  |-------+------------+------------+------------+------------
       |   |       |       |            |            |            |Salts and
       |   |       |Carbon.| Hydrogen.  |  Oxygen.   |   Azote.   |  Earths.
  -----+---+-------+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------
       |lb.|lb. oz.|lb. oz.|lb. oz. dwt.|lb. oz. dwt.|lb. oz. dwt.|lb. oz. dwt.
  Hay  |20 |17   4 | 7  11 | 0  10    7 | 6   8    8 | 0   3    2 | 1   6   14
  Oats | 6 | 5   2 | 2   7 | 0   3   18 | 1  10   14 | 0   1    7 | 0   2   10
  Water|43 |  ...  |  ...  |    ...     |    ...     |    ...     | 0   0    8
  Total|69 |22   6 |10   6 | 1   2    5 | 8   7    2 | 0   4    9 | 1   9   12
  -----+---+-------+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------


PRODUCTS VOIDED BY THE HORSE IN 24 HOURS.

  -----------------+------------+------------+ ...
                   |            |            |
                   | Weight in  | Weight in  |
  [P]=Products.    |  the wet   |  the dry   |
                   |  state.    |  state.    |
  -----------------+------------+------------+
                   |lb. oz. dwt.|lb. oz. dwt.|
  [U]=Urine        | 3   6   15 | 9   9   14 |
  [E]=Excrements   |38   2    2 | 9   5    6 |
  -----------------+------------+------------+
  [T]=    Total    |71   8   17 |10   3    0 |
  [F]=Total matter}|69   0    0 |22   6    0 |
       of the food}|            |            |
                   +------------+------------+
  [D]=Difference   |27   3    3 |12   3    0 |
  -----------------+------------+------------+ ...

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