Wichita eagle., 1888-04-26
For Health and Profit.

At a Hornersville farmers institute,
Col. f. ID. Curtis said:
| make meat upon the farm. and pro-
duce it in the cheapest possible way by
buying as little grain as possible. We
ought to have a mutton Merino sheep.
We must not destroy the thick fleece
that has been built up at such great ex-
pense. but we must have a larger carcass.
We can do it by feeding. One of the
greatest calamities of the present day
are the puny children we see everywhere;
but they can be made more hardy by
proper feeding. 1t is possible to fatten a
lamb before it is born. ! have demon
strated this by proper feeding. You can
raise colt that will be certain to be I'M
sound, or Won can make it a horse in
every bone and sinew: all by proper
food. Our horses can be made worth
80 per cent more than the
corn-fed horses of the west. The dairy
must continue to be the successful indus
try of this state. To do it you must feed
your calf to make COW; not a mass of
beef. You can create disease in animals
by feed. The foundation of hog cholera
is the feeding Of corn generation after
generation. We never need have any of
these diseases if we will be cautious and
wise. As rule the average farmer feeds
too fnuch: twice a day IL often enough
to feed. There must be time for diges-
ton, and rest fer the stomach. Don
gorge the animal My own two child
rem, the very pictures Of health. never
tasted any food except milk, Oat meal
and fruits until after they were two
wears old. You can raise your babies
with perfect bodies just as we'll as other
animals. The speaker then called at
tention TO a painting showing sec
tions of pork cut from two pigs, saying
that they Were illustrations Of the re-
suit of an experiment made 10y Prof j.
w. Sanborn. of the Missouri State Agri-
cultural college. who took an equal num-
Der Of pigs. of the same size and age.
and fed them for 13s DAYS. One lot
were fed entirely upon heterogeneous foods,
the other lot upon the most concentrated
of fat producing. which Is corn. Nitro
genous foods produce a perfect BODY,
all the organs developed and healthy:
and right here let me say 10 you, do not
commence to fatten until you have a
good body; you cannot grow a strong.
healthy body and commence 10 pile on
the fat the dav the animal Is born. Corn
meal Is the dearest food you can feed
and the poorest in the making Of ma
nures Fruit, grass, clover, cornstalks,
vegetables, cabbage, are ali the best OF
heterogeneous foods, lean meat. muscle
real foods from nitrogenOus foods.
The fat is from corn. Fat Is not
food. it is merely stuff 20 I'll
up the stomach Far pork. made
from corn j. merely animal oll. As any
housewife has proven who has put
piece in the frying pan: that which Is
not fried out Is the msrest scrap. Such
stuff Is not food. In this experiment Il
feeding, in the pig fed on corn the vital
organs were not fully developed and
more or less diseased. THIS Is the result
Of an experiment Of rs DAYS feeding.
What can be accomplished IN lifetime:
The bones III the cornfed pigs were small
and weak: in the heterogeneous fed, large
and strong. Hogs have starved 20 death
from a long feeding Of c0rn-dIssI from
an excess Of fat that oOuld no. sustain
life. The organs Of tiseSe nitrogsnozIs
fed animals were perfectly developed,
the others infiarned and diseased KID
nsy diseases are engeRdsred oy carb01a-
ceoas foods,