The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19
COOKING FOOD FOR STOCK.

Those who oppose cooking food
for stock on general principles will
be pleased with the following from
the London (Eng.) Country Gentle
mans Magazine: .-...
Thorough mastication of food is
recommended as all-important, but
It must be remembered that cooked
food rarely calls forth the necessary
process, and no amount of cooking
will render food more. nutritious.
Mastication is necessary for two
purposes-to break down and satur-
ate the food with an important fluid
the saliva, that fluid effecting i'm
portant changes in the nutrltive
elements to fit them to undergo
subsequent actions by other juices
of the digestive organs. It is not
pussible to supplant these secretions
by any process Of preparation by
cooking or additions OF fluids.
Dame nature has supplied vegetable
food for every season, and only re-
quires of man that he should OBJ
serve the peeuliarities Of each, and
give the benefits to animals as far
as possible. 1t is decided mistake
to cook the food of animals when
it is sound and sweet. The mistake,
go called, of supplying the dry food
In winter, is moro apparent than
real. The exercise of common
sense is called for in order to regu-
late the practice with suitable roots
and proper shelter and warmth,
more than is usually done. 1t is 9
mi q a IN tn
so much as is commonly done. II
more attention were paid to them,
and the supplying OF artificial food
increased during the period of their
most active growth, adverse states
would not be so general, and the
remedy less sought after in useless
preparations Of food which run into
expenses. Among working horses
the effects or cooked food are some
times marvellous. Cholic, and in
digestion generally, with disease OF
the liver and kidneys, is Of common
and fatal occurrence. 1t may be
more easily understood to say such
| preparations are quite unnatural, Is
the digestive organs are constituted
to act upon the most nutritive
| grainE. It is also commonly believ-
ed that animals, especially horses,
pass much away by the bowels that
ought to be digested and appropria-
| ted TO the system. This question
requires more philosophical research
before Il can Be definitely and &C.
curately settled, bat we can 60 30
far So to say that when the mastiea.
tory organs are In good order, and
digestion perfect, Q proper allow
ance Of food Is thoroughly assimi.
lated. Apparently whole grains
may be found in the excrement, but
upon close examination they will
turn out to be the shells only, which
by the action OF the digestive juices
have been Invested of their internal
nutrient parts. Some persons look
npon digestion rs q process In which
| everything must be utilized for the
building up OF tissue. They forget
1t is quite as essential that other
substances should be present-those
| non-nutrftious in themselves, but
by their constitution and presence
give bulk TO the rest, and assist in
their general reduction in the stom.
| ach Of the higher animals, exactly 81
the saEid and pebble act In the crops
| OF birds. The success OF feeding
our domestic animals does not Lie
in the way Of cooking food and ed.
ministration of condiments, but IL
Q Judicious management generally
IN which the peculiar features OF
organization, physiology, geology
meteerology, and hygrometrics
play their respective parts, and ag.
ricuIturaI success will never b
certain until these branches o.
science are moro definitely scknowI-
edged. AKA