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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.Allen, Richard Lamb

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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

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        |               Elementary Matter in the Products.
        +------------+------------+------------+------------+------------
    [P] |            |            |            |            |Salts and
        |  Carbon.   | Hydrogen.  |  Oxygen.   |   Azote.   |Earths.
    ----+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------
        |lb. oz. dwt.|lb. oz. dwt.|lb. oz. dwt.|lb. oz. dwt.|lb. oz. dwt.
    [E] | 4   7    0 | 0   6   13 | 4   0    9 | 0   2   19 | 1   3    8
    [U] | 0   8    7 | 0   0   16 | 0   8    3 | 0   1    3 | 1   0    6
    [M] | 1   8    3 | 0   3    3 | 0  10    6 | 0   1    9 | 0   1   16
        +------------+------------+------------+------------+------------
    [T] | 6  11   10 | 0  10   12 | 5   6   18 | 9   5   11 | 2   5   10
    [F] |12  10   13 | 1   7    2 |10   9   14 | 0   6    9 | 2   4   11
        +------------+------------+------------+------------+------------
    [D] | 5  11    3 | 0   8   10 | 5   2   16 | 0   0   18 | 0   0   19
    ----+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------

  WATER CONSUMED BY THE COW            | WATER VOIDED BY THE COW
       IN  24 HOURS.                   |       IN  24 HOURS.
  ------------------------+------------+----------------------+-----------
                          | lbs.   oz. |                      | lbs.   oz.
  With the potatoes       |  23    12  |With the excrements   |  53    10
  With the hay            |   2     9  |With the urine        |  15    14
  Taken as drink          | 132     0  |With the milk         |  16     3
                          +------------+                      +-----------
    Total consumed        | 158     5  |  Total voided        |  85    11
                                       |Water consumed        | 158     5
                                                              +-----------
  Water passed off by pulmonary and cutaneous transpiration   |  79     2

We here perceive a large loss of water, carbon, hydrogen, &c. Nearly all
this loss of carbon and hydrogen escaped by respiration, while most of
the water, oxygen, nitrogen, and salts, passed off in perspiration. In
further illustration of the subject of respiration, Liebig says, "from
the accurate determination of the quantity of carbon daily taken into
the system in the food, as well as of that proportion of it which passes
out of the body in the f[oe]ces and urine, _unburned_, that is, in some
form uncombined with oxygen, it appears that an adult taking moderate
exercise, consumes 13.9 oz. of carbon daily." The foregoing are facts in
the animal economy, capable of vast practical bearing in the management
of our domestic animals. But before following out these principles to
their application, let us briefly examine


The Effects of Respiration.

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