The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-07-06


as the dirt disappears, use more clean
flannel to brighten them. If tie paste
gets hard, add hot water.
HOW MUCH FOOD IS REQIRED TO KEEP
| AN ANIMAL ALIVE.
We have long wished to ascertain how
much food is required to sustain the vital
| functions of an animal. We know how
much food an animal usually eats, but
we do not fully know what is done with
il. Some of it is required to keep up
the heat of the body, and some to ex-
pend in producing the force necessary
to think, to breathe, to eat, to digest, to
lie down and get up, and to sustain the
voluntary and involuntary motions of the
| body, And if the animal is growing, or
working, or producing milk or sustaining
It's fetal young, more or less food is re-
| Quired for these purposes. But hoa0
much is required has not, so far as we
know, been accurately ascertained. Still,
there are few isolated facts that throw
some light on the subject
1t is generally supposed that animals
eat food in proportion to their size or
weight Aud the usual estimate, based
on numerous experiment is that we'll
! fed animal consumes about three pounds
| of hay or its equivalent per day for each
| one hundred pounds Of live weight. Mr..
Lawes celebrated experiments on the
different breeds of (English) sheep,
showed that ''sheep consume food in
! proportion to their live weight" In
other words, two Cotswold sheep, weigh
ing one hundred twenty pounds each, ate
as much as three South-Down sheep
weighing eighty pounds each. But the
two Cotswold sheep gained more in a
given time than the three South-Downs
These are the facts. The explanation
must be sought for in the amount of food
required to sustain their vital functions
If the three South Downs require more
| food to sustain their vital functions than
the two Cotswolds of the same weight,
it is evident that, as both lots eat the
same quantity. there must be more food
available for growth in the one case than
the other.
In DIR. Miles experiments on pigs at
the Michigan Agricultural College, there
were three pigs of the same litter, and
which had all received the same treat
ment, and been fed iu the same pen and
on the same food, and were allowed all
the food they would eat. At % weeks
old, the pigs weighed as follows: No.
/, 50 pounds No. ,, 60 pounds; No. 3,
l0l pounds The pigs were then put In
separate pens, and during the next four
weeks No. l ate 4S3 pounds corn-meal
and lost one pound in weight. No. ate
5l3 pounds and gained four pounds No.
8 ate ll0 pounds and gaind l93 pounds.
aged oxen performing severe OF
heavy labor require daily. per 1,00C
pounds live weight, % pounds of organ
ic substances; namely, woody fibre. lC
pounds nitrogenous nutritive matter
2.S pounds; non-nitregenous nutTitivt
matter, l2.4 pounds.
In this ease therefore, we may assume
that the oxen eating % pounds of foot
use a pounds of it to sustain the vita
functions, or 80 per cent.
Calling the ''organic substance" hay
I it would require, to keep yoke of cat
tie weighing ,000pounds each, five ton
Of hay, keeping them is attained from
food eaten over and above this amount
. -H,ath and Home.
MoLAssEs TEA CAKE.-One teacup o
! OF molasses. one cup sour cream, tea
spoon of saleratus. ginger and spice t.
taste. three cups of -four
: CHARLOTTE TART-Make a very acit
: Jelly with gelatine from the juice of lem
: ons, plums, or barberries spread thi
half an inch thick over sheets of cak,
baked very thin, and cover the Who'll,
with cream, prepared as for Charlotte
| Russo an inch or more deep.
AT Ogden Farm, near Newport, r. I.
no litter is used in the stables, the ami
; mails being bedded with beach sand. Nj,
Waring expresses the opinion, in the
American Agriculturist, that one load o
the manure is worth three times as much
as load made where there is profuse
lltterlng.