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Excerpt from Common Sense Treatment of Farm Animals Now when we apply this knowledge to the maintenance of health what do we find? Simply this - that a class of food that will enable a mother to make milk in fair quantity is a health preserving food. And when we feed a young and growing animal on a class of food which if it were fed to a nursing mother would not enable her to' convert it into milk we are feeding that young animal a class of'food that will stunt its growth from a lack of proper nourishment. Overtax its digestive organs by taking into its stomach a surplus of bulky substance that weakens its digestion, and cause it to become an animal subject to intestinal disease on slight provocation. With insufficient food nutrients we have a weak muscular system, weak ligaments of the joints, and some times a bony structure lackingin strength. Thus it is we find many animals of superior breeding that grow up weaklings. They were well born and started well in life on the milk of the mother. When such animal is a. Foal it grows a beauty so long as it remains with the mother, nurses her and learns to eat the class of food with her that she is manufacturing into milk for it. But what a change sometimes follows when this little beauty is weaned from its mother, and furnished the class of food its owner ignorantly feeds it. The same rule holds good regarding the raising of a calf or a-pig when weaned from the mother'and deprived of the mother's milk at a tender age. When the food given the young animal after weaning is of a character widely diherent from the analysis of milk trouble follows in the form of a weakened digestion, with the result of sudden death, or a worth less beast either as a work horse, a dairy cow, or a fattening animal. 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.