The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-06-26
From the Genosec Farmer.
FEEDING FARM STOCK.

All know, in cleaning land, what a small
amount of ash is left as the residum of the
mighty forest. Carbon, or charcoal, exist IS
in the vegetable kingdom in much larger
proportion than any other element. Nitro =
gen is found only in very small quantity, yet
its presence Is absolutely necessary. No
vitality or organization is found without it.
There are manv substances in vegetables
- A. 49, contain nitrogen. bu. they are
not integral portions of the plant. They
are merely vegetable de posits correspond
ing with the deposits of fat in the animal
organization. These deposits, such as starch
sugar, gum, etc, are destitute of nitrogen,
and are composed Of carbon and the
elements of water. They are therefore
called carbOnaceous compounds. Tho Sc
su distances which contain niCrogen-aud
every vital part Of plant and animal does
contain it-are called heterogeneous substances.
They are composed of all the four organic
elencnts-oXygen. hydrogen, nitrogen, and
carbon-uniled in definite proportions in all
plants and animals.
If we take piece of carbon or charcoal,
and burn il in stove, it gives out an amount
OF heat propOrtionate to the amount burned
The carbon of food, when taken into the
animal system, is burnt in precisely the
Slme way that in the stove and gives
out exactly the SINE amount of heat 1t
is well known, that when any heated body
Is surrounded with colder substances, the
heat will fly off from the heated body, till
all become of an equal temperature. And
it Is also well known, that more fuel would
be needed to keep stove at a given heat
when exposed to a cold Temperature, than
when IN a warm one. An animal is affect
ed IN this respect 10 precisely the same man
ner as stove. The temperature of the ami
NAL body IS the same at the North pole as
at the Equator, when at blood heat tenn
perature, as when in atmosphere 4Oo be-
low zero. It must be, therefore, that this
body is heated from within; and that the
colder the air, the more heat must there be
produced and consequently the more car
bon must there be burned in the lungs to
generate it. Hence it is that in cold wea-
Their we eat much more food, and that of
more carbonaceous character, than in hot
weather. Warmth, to a certain point, is |
equivalent TO an increase of arb,n in the /
food.
The nitro enous substances Of vegetables |
are precisely the same in com position as the .
muscles Oh flesh of animals; aud it is sup
posed that the nitrogeaous substances %
vegetables are converted into flesh without
Hence the assertion by many!
''fooi is in direct proportion TO the amount
II these nltrogenous or hesh-forming sub
tances. Bousngault, the most reliable
gricultHral chemist in The world, has given
ables Of equivalents founded on this br:n-
',PPes. According to them. peas contain I
areostlm es as much nitrogen as maize, and
fonssquaat.yr three times as nutr;sio Us
iran, too. IS much more nutritious than the I
nest wheat -four; while an immature corn =
AK would be more ru-ritous tn an one per. ,
'ctly elaborated. Tho experiments Of
awes aud Gilbert throw much doubt on | $
ie correctness Of this theory One thing at
ast Is demoustrated-tha the amount of d
trosen food contains in no way regulates +
e amount consumed by the aaimal. Thus / b
hog Will eat as much peas as corn: while ! \
the one casa he will eat three times as II,
uch nitrogen "a in the other 1,s ~
we arrive at the conclusion, tia: the !