The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-12-30
WARMTH A SUBSTITUTE FOR FOOD.

In the animal economy food serves Two great
purpose> One is to furnish the materials which
90 to form MI the various parts-boih solid and
1quid--oi the body Young animals have Wants
in this respect 70 supply the materials which make
the growth Of all the parts, and those that make
Good the natural losses eyer going on IN the living
body Animals arrived at their maturity have
uone of this growth to provide tor; only t. furnish
sufficient new materials TO replace the Old ones
every moment passing out OF the system.
The other great purpose of food Is to furnish the
body with the fuel that makes the animal heat.
For what is breathing and its object: Those poi-
tons of the food-mostly carbon and hydrogen
not needed for the first purpose named, are poured
along with the blood into the lungs where mix
ing With the oxygen of the air,-luSt a. the two
unite In Il stove or furnace true combustion or
burning takes place ana makes the animal heat
a~ in the stove And furnace heat are formed.
Now it is the plinest Of things that in warming
buildings, the amount of fuel entirely depends up
on the amount Of heat which is allowed to escape
into the outer air; if but little the heat remains
where wanted amt little fuel is sufficient; if much
The room is c.3a requiring additional fucI to make
and keep up the heat occa>ioucd by the loss OF it.
Who doe, not See that under these varying cpndi-
tred per cent:
These principles apply with great force and ad-
nIonition in these times OF hgh-priccd food. A.
shown above, all the animal heat that warns the
body j. the result of the expenditure of so much
food If the surroundings of the body as to cloth
hg and apartments are such as to prevent much
heat escaping from it, little food-fuel will be re-
quircd; and just in proportion as the animal heat
must YOU pile on the fuel that is. the food, TO maan
tain the requisite warmth and comfort. Thus the
difference between the saving and losing the animA
heat; between keeping stock-and the same is true
of the human being-wHm or cold, may he equal
70 the difference OF two or three hundred per cent.
also, in the amount Of food required. So thai
every crack or hole stopped in the barn is stopping
bad leak III the grain BIN.
Ar ltstock-raisers from pigs and poultry to horse
and neat stock, should know that every particle of
animal heat saved, consistent with health, is, fol
reasons already shown, substitute for so much
food So that stock kept. as is usually the case
even in this cold climate in buildings without any
ptetentions to warmth, ,-often less warm than
forest; allowed to wander off in the cold in ques
ot water, and to stand in the severcst weather all
,iay long out doors, is not only subjected to tho
cruelest of treatments to them, but the mos
costly and ruinous one to the owners. Many a
barn do we see with knot-holes thro' which the
largest eat may go; cracks every few inches apar
thro which the largest hand may be eaily thrust
windows and doons aar; through which the cold
winters wind is tearing like hurricane. Here
the poor animals stand, and no amount o
food that you can give them, will be sufficient un
der such conditions to supply the fuel requisite t.
keep up the animal heat to the health and comfor
paint; and so they must burp up portions OF them
Selves and so grow and be lean all through th'
season; just under the want of fire-wood, yol
will burn up portions of the house itself rathe
than freeze. In this needless loss of fodder an'
flesh there can be no question that Maine loses an
nualy millions of dollars
This is specially true in the matter OF milk an
eggs. Most people complain that 6 the COWS dl'