Excerpt from Manual of Cattle-Feeding: A Treatise on the Laws of Animal Nutrition and the Chemistry of Feeding-Stuffs in Their Application to the Feeding of Farm Animals The body is thus continually suffering a loss of material. To replace this loss, as well as to supply material for fur ther growth, is the office of the food, which may, from this point of View, be regarded as a vehicle for the intro duction Of supplies of force into the body. 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.