PRIZE YEARLING SHORT-HORN BULL, "VICTOR EMMANUEL,"
THE PROPERTY OF LORD TALBOT DE MALAHIDE,
Was awarded the First Prize in his Section (there being sixteencompetitors), at the Show of the Royal Agricultural Society, heldat Belfast, in August, 1861. Calved June 24, 1860; sire, PrinceDuke the Second (16,731); dam, Turfoida, by Earl of Dublin (10,178);gd., Rosina, by Gray Friar (9,172); ggd., Hinda, by Little John (4,232).
THE STOCK-FEEDER'S MANUAL.
THE
CHEMISTRY OF FOOD
IN RELATION TO THE
BREEDING AND FEEDING
OF
LIVE STOCK.
BY CHARLES A. CAMERON, Ph.D., M.D.,
Licentiate of the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland; Honorary Corresponding Member of the New York State Agricultural Society; Member of the Agricultural Society of Belgium; Professor of Hygiene or Political Medicine in the Royal College of Surgeons; Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy in Steevens' Hospital and Medical College; Lecturer on Chemistry in the Ledwich School of Medicine; Analyst to the City of Dublin; Chemist to the County of Kildare Agricultural Society, the Queen's County Agricultural Society, c.; Member of the International Jury of the Paris Exhibition, 1867; Editor of the "Agricultural Review;" one of the Editors of the "Irish Farmer's Gazette;" Author of the "Chemistry of Agriculture," "Sugar and the Sugar Duties," &c. &c.
LONDON AND NEW YORK:
CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN.
1868.
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LONDON
CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN, BELLE SAUVAGE WORKS,
LUDGATE HILL, E. C.
THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE
Dedicated
TO
THE RIGHT HONORABLE
THE LORD TALBOT DE MALAHIDE, F.R.S.,
President of the Royal Irish Academy, &c. &c. &c.,
ONE OF THE MOST ENLIGHTENED AND LIBERAL PROMOTERSOF AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENTS.
THE AUTHOR IS UNDER MANY OBLIGATIONS TO HIS LORDSHIP, FORWHICH HE CAN MAKE NO RETURN SAVE THIS PUBLIC ACKNOWLEDGMENTOF HIS INDEBTEDNESS.
PREFACE.
Some papers on the Chemistry of Food, read before the Royal AgriculturalSociety of Ireland and the Athy Farmers' Club, and a few articles on theManagement of Live Stock, published in the Weekly Agricultural Review,constitute the basis of this Work. It describes the nature of the foodus