Mobile register and journal., 1845-09-11

Among the charges that certainly has to be made
 against our exercise of common sense, industry and enterprise us an agricultural people, the total neglect of many valuable that Ire found scattered over our country'is not the least. Notwithstanding that with other pursuits we have had much to do with siock-horses, mules sheep, &c. It may safely be asserted that in no part of the earth was the subject oi providing for ihem or preserving their health and lIieless matter of a careful examination and enquiry; and although the destruction o animal life that follows the winter season on horned cattle, and the working season in horses and mules, oxen, &c. is calculated to the attention of any re- fecting man--yet on second thought it is yei more extraordinary if we take into view the mode of keeping and oviding for them that the fatality is not much greater.
 When we for moment review the great value of those animals to our comfort and prosperity, mak-
 ing all due allowance for stupidity, it seems still difficult to account for the prevailing apathy that
 we discover the subject, and candor will even be compelled to acknowledge charge against our hu- manity, as well as common sense; for it will forever remain mystery that the principle of self interest that lever so active and powerful, and exciting in
 the South 10 enquiry in cases wherever interest is
 involved in the question at issuc does not drive to anxious and deligent investigation how to make the most of the living machinery SD efficient and reatiy 10 aud us In our pecuniary pursuits.
 Whatever view many may be pleased to take of this subject it is susceptible of the strongest proof that the mode universal of feeding aborng ami mals m the South on uncrushed grain and wthhold- ing, or not providing for them, full supply of wholesome nutritious grass-grasscs well cured and preserved. is to be deprecaied In paying the slightest attention 10 working animals, it will readi- ly be seen that to preserve the bowels m perfect action, their digestion of the grain that constitutes the so'e feed oi 'he South, regards grain-good h"tr'''ve srdss exhibits a most happy agency and next 10 t' well cured and preserved grass or hay Among the hundred results of we'll conducted expe- r"nents made to determine this subject with sccura cy oy imeiiISent men in Europe and the United states 'ne Is worthy of being placed in the hands o every rational man that has the charge and use of working animals
 On he adpdniags of reducing the food Of cattle be- fore Rip'ng H--As have jus, conclujed the experi- ment you wished, haste to forward you the results which are as follows : two horses m good heatb in daily work, and nearly possible equal in size and age, were selected for the experin,eni.- They were each allowed five pounds of oats, 0forty two pounds per bushel,) and a snlhcency of good hay, of which they consumed about seventeen pounds per day, each horse. The only difference in the feeding consisted in one horse having the oats thor oush'y crashed, and the other being allowed the oats uncrushed On the fourth day oi the above mode of Iced the solid excremenls of each horse were examined. One hundred parts of the dung, rom the horse fed crushed oats were found be dePrVed oi all the nutritious matter contained in the leod' and the remainder to consist of woody fibre,