DIAGRAM

EXHIBITING IN POUNDS AND OUNCES THE AMOUNT OF MILK PRODUCED BY THE WHITE COW DAILY BY FIVE DIFFERENT KINDS OF FOOD.

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES

ON

THE FOOD OF ANIMALS,

AND THE

FATTENING OF CATTLE.

WITH REMARKS ON

THE FOOD OF MAN.

BASED UPON EXPERIMENTS UNDERTAKEN BY ORDER OF
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.

BY

ROBERT DUNDAS THOMSON, M. D.

LECTURER ON PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.

FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION.

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M DCCC XLVI.