Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1852-11-13
with the phosphates, the phosphate of soda of

the blood
"The phosphate of soda is indispensable to
the moral constitution of the blood and that
the process which 60 on in that fluid cannot be
replaced by the phosphate Of potash, seems to
me to be an opinion fully justified by the prop
critics of these two salts"
'.It seems to me, there can be no doubt in the
mind of any one, of the correctness of the views
of Prof Liebig, in regard to the utility of sup
PLYING farm stock with salt in sections of the
country remote from the sea-board, especially
when we take his views in connection with 9TH
er familiar and well established physiological
facts
Phosphoric acid and lime are indispensable
in the formation of the bones of animals, and
no other substance will answer that purpose. If
the hay or grass upon which mich COW is fed
is deficient in phospheric acid and lime, instinct
points out a remedy; the cow takes to eating
bones, to supply the deficiency of bone earth in
her natural food. If she cannot obtain sutf-
cheney of phosphates for her milk, and to sup
ply the daily waste going on in her bones and
other portions of her system, emaciation and
weakness follow, and sometimes death, from
what is called the 'bone disorder" A certain
remedy for this disease is found in giving to the
cows the fine bone-dust from the button mould
factories, A gill day given to a mich COW for
a few weeks, will cure her of a propensity to
eat old bones, and restore her to health and
strength. There is no theory about this-it is
a matter of fact have procured several bar
rels of the bone sawdust from the button
factory at Brighton, as medicine for the cows
of farmers and others in this vicinity; and the
past summer | furnished to number of farmers
the ground mineral phosphate of lime for the
same purpose, and with equally good results
Lime is the principal mineralingredient in the
formation of an egg SHE'LL If hen is shut up,
and fed wholly on food containing no lime, it
may occasionally lay an egg; but it will have no
shell. A hen can no more generate lime than
she can gold or silver; nor any more transmute
any other mineral substance into lime, to form
her egg-shell, than she can produce the new
three cent pieces of coin from gravel stones-
Sulphur is prominent constituent of the yolk
of an egg. that is derived from the food upon
which the bird subsists. No other substance
will supply its place in the formation of the
perfect egg, and "any bird which can organize a
perfect egg, without particle of sulphur to en-
ter into the composition of its yolk, can create
and lay little world, with all its inhabitants
The blood of animals is made up of globules,
some of which are white, and others red; the
globules owe their color to the oxide of from
the red particles are deficient in quantity the
functions of life are languidly performed; by
the administration in medicine of the salts of
iron, the ford color of the blood and complex
ion is improved. Probably, from some disar-
rangement of the assimilating vessels in those
persons whose blood is deficient in colorlng
matter, the vessels do not take from the food
sufficient iron; therefore, in such cases, it is Civ
en- direct, and in larger quantity than is usually
found in the food, and with good results,
Common salt combination of muriatic acid
with soda, an element lin connection with GER
tain acids) so necessary to healthy state OF the
blood Clover, red-top, and herd-grass, grown
near the ocean, contain SO much salt as to rem
der the sailing of the cattle fed upon it unnec-
essary, while the same kind of grasses grown
here, some sixty or seventy miles inland, are
so deficient in soda, that it becomes matter OF
much consequence that our cattle should be
supplied with salt, for certain amount OF soda,
from some source or other, is required in the
blood, and required, too, by a law more immu-
table than that of the Modes and Persians. lis
this law that induces the "salt hungry" COW, or
horse, to lick, for the half hour together, an old
cask that has been used for sailing meat.
To hare a Good H0rSe.-Iti is not sufficient to
have good colt, the product of a superior mare
with stallion of good blood and established
reputation. This is necessary but it is not all that