The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-11-24
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All are familiar with the expression
animal heat. The epithet animal, >
rs applied to heat, would seem to convey
tie idea that it was Il peculiar kind Of
heat. differing from other kinds Of heat.
But this is not The case. SO far rs tests
can be brought to bear upon it, it exhib'
its the same properties and produces the
same effects as the heat produced outside
OF animal bodies, by the burning of
wood, coal, gas, ETC., etc. AS ordinary
heat comes from combustion, or the
burning OF something, the inference
would appear natural that animal heat
also is produced from combustion or the
burning OF something. And this has
been shown to be strictly true. The life
and health OF animals require that the
temperature of their bodies should be
approximately 100 degrees Of Fahren-
lcit's scale. But as the air around them
is usually much cooler than that, they
lave to generate heati i'll themselves, have
q furnace OF their own, so to speak,
which envelopes them.
Now, What is it that is burned in an
animals body to keep its temperature up
to the natural standard? The answer is
food, especially certain kinds Of food. Is
food anything like wood? Has it Il SINH
lar composition? Can it be burned like
wood? Every one knows that certain
kinds Of food, is fats and oils, burn very
readily; tallow, lard, lard oil, cotton seed
oil and so on, for instance. Rats and
oils, it will be observed, are not confined
to meals or animal food, but are found
in seeds and other parts Of plants as well.
The grain Of corn and oats contain some
five per cent. of fat, barley about two,
cotton seed about thirty, ground peas
(shelled) forty-sis, wheat about TWO,
clover hay three, timothy two, etc. prob
ably no substance eaten by animals IS
devoid OF fat. But other substances
found largely il food, such as starch,
sugar and gum, are composed of the
same three elements that fat is, and are
susceptible OF being burned IL an ami
malls body. The burning is notas rapid
rs in !; stove, but the conditions and re-
quirements are similar. The fire in a
stove must have air; the animal must
draw an also into its lungs and from its
lungs into its blood, at very short inter
vals. The stove sends out carboplc acid
from the end Of its pipe; the animal
throws out carbonic acid at every explra-
ton. The coal or wood in the stove
burns up and must be replenished at
short intervals; the animals supply OF
tat, starch, sugar and gum IS also soon
used up, and must be supplied two or
three times every day.
Now, the amount OF heat that al AMI
nal must generate to keep up It's natural
temperature depends upon the amount Of
cold to which it is exposed. The colder
the weather the more food must be burnt
il i stove to keep q room warm; the
greater the exposure to cold the greater
the amount o1 food the animal must con-
slImc to keep warm. 1t becomes, then, a
practical question, to 4 certain extent, as
to the comparative cost Of shelters to
protect from cold and OF food to be
burned to produce heat. Is it cheaper to
protect from cold rams and cold winds,
and thus economic the heat of animals,
OF is it cheaper to expose them fully to
the weather and supply more food to
MAKE up Tor increased loss CT heat:
When it IS considered how cheap ) roofs
may be made OF plan!lS and stalls OF
poles, which with pine brush leaned
against them OF thc north aild west sldcS
would very ciIcctutiiy protect trom cold
winds, one cannot hesitate lonS III an
swcring the above question.