Excerpt from Feeding Animals: A Practical Work, the Laws of Animal Growth, One Specially Applied to the Rearing and Feeding of Horses, Cattle, Dairy Cows, Sheep and Swine The patronage of the most advanced farmers extended to the previous editions of Feeding Animals has been a very agreeable surprise to the author, and made him feel desirous of rewriting some of the most important chapters of the book, but impaired health has quite prevented this. Yet the typographical errors and errors in analysis have been corrected as far as discovered; and an important addition of twelve pages has been made to the tables of food analyses, made by American chemists, which is likely to be a nearer approximation to American food values than analyses of the same foods made in Europe. Certain combinations of foods are so often made in rations that a short table of such combinations is given, in the hope that it may be found useful. Maize being the most important grain crop raised in this country, some instructive experiments to determine the composition of the different parts of this whole crop is added to this edition. The author believes that this book now contains more precise information upon all topics relating to feeding stock than can be found in any other single publication, and he hopes the same generous appreciation and patronage will be extended to this as to the previous editions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.