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This analysis is interesting in several re-
spects:
Ist. /, shows tha, the percentage Of the
protein compour Ids (giut.n and albumen)
Is :iearly equal 10 that contained n peas and
beans. and therefore. for the production of
milk. cAee~e and butter and for laying on
fat aud muscle oil cake IS much m,ra vala
able than any kind OF gram, and equal 10
peas and beans.
The proportion of oil remaining in the
cake is grea.er than is naturally present in
any species Of grain pulse. cultivated
food for cattle.
Oa's contain as a maximum per cent.
and Indisn cora 9 per cent Of oil, but as
Oil clk. contains l2 per cent. it ia 33 per
cen, mere valuable Than corn. and II per
cent more valuable than oats for fatiening <
purposes.
ANALYSIS NO. II.
The composition of the ash or inorganic
part OF American Oil cake consists OF
Alkaline salts (potash. soda. lime,
DC. .......... -3S 20
Phosphates OF lime, magnesia. &c. 56 &c
Lime -............. i.Zf
Silica powdered flint nt)...... 43o
10000
A knowledge of these several proportion
suggests the following interesting practical
observations: LIST. OIL cake contains per
cent. Of ash. Of which one third is phospho-
ric acid; SO that 100 pounds Of oil cake con-
tain two pounds of phosphoric a-id--other
grain on the contrary. wheat for example,
contains ouly per cent of ash, one-half
of which is phosphoric acid; 100 pounds o!
wheat contain only one pound Of phosptoric
acid
Thus, for supplying the materials of bone
to growing stock, oil cake is twice As valu
able as whea, (equ>l weights and more
than three times as valuabls as oats or bar
ley.
Cd. The same circumstance supplies US
with an additional reason. why the manure
of full grown stock fed upon oil cake is a
much richer than that obtained from the
use of any other kind of food Ii is richer
because, as We have seen. the proportion Of
the protein compounds (.lbumen and glu
ten) IN the oil cake. is greaier than the fat
teulng animal can approPriate; hence por-
tion of them passes off in a more or less
changed state aud i. mixed with the ma
nure.
The oil also is in greater abundance than
can at times be laid on their bodies. even
by tauening stock, and this unauesrionably
contribues TO the fertilizing quality of the
manure. Further, the full grown animal
appropriates scarcely any OF the phosphstes
aud consequently. they reappsar iu the offal
which (since oil cake Is richer in the pi,os
pilates than any variety OF grau, is alse
richer than the manure from animals fed
on any kind OF grain.
We have thus far spoken of the value o
oil cake as food for horned cattle By
thoroughly tested experiments ia England
oil cake is extensively used as food for al
descriptions OF stock. L, is found equal,
valuable Is q food for sheep, horses auc
calves.
Flem the foregoing statements we con
clude that
Oh cake is the richest food known: yivias
healthy tone II sickly animals. fat;euins
lean ones, and maintaining the vigor OF III.
healthy and strong- From The extraor,iina
~ labor performed By cart ard road horse.
and the high feeding they require. they ar,
often infected with iudamatory diseases; hu
if all the proprietors Of horses could be in
daced to give them from one pint TO on,
.qusrs every few days. it would operate IS .