Show varieties of food for stock the majority of farmers are not an fn with alic terms now used to cla tho ilin crant qualities of food for stock for they alo not tako kindly to such expression us albumin carbo ctr yet after aalthe modes ot arc pimple anil embody all tho constituent alc ments eliat enter into foods crown upon alic farm for stock feeding some foods anro tat producing inch as corn while the development of muscle bone and nerves such as clover all fiodi lire cla lilied under rankings ran kingi to ita nitrogen carboa and mineral ah thus in order to arrange together elioso foods that aro nitrogenous or producing tho term albumin i employed because the nitrogen is nearly always in combination in tho shapo of tim carba eydi or heat producing are choso rich in starch and sugar and as starch and sugar both contain a largo proportion of carbon and also large quantities of oxygen and hydrogen water alio tariu applied illus traUs the ofilio food as well as its composition alo base of all alio llio nitrogenous foods is protein when we know that certain foods contain fibrin gelatin case io which arc found in all animal anil vegetable alio fact aliat nitrogen is pro ont is made plain be canso that clement is in lucli substances and when we understand that foods contain starch gum sugar andoch itis apparent that they of necessity contain cairon in feeding to alic farmer by ids knowledge of alio between llesh faiming food saud tho 0 that form fat is enabled to ao combine alio dimur foods as to provide for all their wants knowing that or foods produce lean meal and milk in order to allow for acil and fat lie balance the foods for alio o of avoiding too much of thu buo ouo kind and not ol 01 the other on an average lie tion of nitrogenous food to alic carbonaceous is us one to or rather lie should add six times as much of alio carbonaceous as lie docs 0 the nitrogenous the conditions however all act the proportions for if an animal is highly exercised as Is the cise working horses tho nitrogen may bo increased and the carbon diminished mini shed but if the ii very cold the proportion of carbonaceous matter on the contrary should be in jy i knowledge of the composition of fiill food aliu fui iier who feeds for milk will alio material allowed to hl s animals according to its quality and not quantity as as frequently the case in fattening his animals ho will use the fat forming foods allow ing only so much nitrogenous matter as be for the existence of the animal it is also economical to feed only as a s lucli as may bo if too much carbonaceous material lie foil to an ani alic excess will lo 10 a loss for alio reason that alic animal will und appropriate only alio actual amount necessary for alic by alic and even alien thu feeds carbonaceous he will his aliey do not nitrogenous food alonco wo often notice on some farms the stock is liberally with certain kinds of food animals anro not thrifty tho young ones ilo not grow ami alio farmer is annoca at tho unsatisfactory results of what ho supposes is good management the cause is a lack of perhaps only a single clement which in connection biln n loss quantity of the kind of food given would produce a radical change it is important then in order to derive alio best bioni feeding animals thil the fanner thoroughly understand der stand tho quality of tho material used its feeding depends upon alio proportion of theio elements best adapted to tho os in biow and unless a perfect knowledge of tho composition of feeding is gained by alio llio farmer lio arill feed at i loss and ant from ma alp 1 M mt rf fJ |