Bran contains a large proportion of gluten; hence it will be seen why brown broad is so much more nutritious than white; in fact, we may lay it down as a general rule, that the whiter the bread the less nourishment it contains.

From the quantity of farinaceous and saccharine matter contained in the pea, it is highly nutritious as an article of food.

THE OX.Of the quadrupedal animals, the flesh of those that feed upon herbs is the most wholesome and nutritious for human food.

OF ALL WILD or DOMESTICATED ANIMALS, the sheep is, without exception, the most useful to man as a food, and the most necessary to his health and comfort; for it not only supplies him with the lightest and most nutritious of meats, but, in the absence of the cow, its udder yields him milk, cream, and a sound though inferior cheese; while from its fat he obtains light, and from its fleece broadcloth, kerseymere, blankets, gloves, and hose.

Food without salt, however nutritious in other respects, is taken with reluctance and digested with difficulty.

It has the power, when the stalks are ripe, of resisting putrefaction, and will become blanched and more nutritious by being cut and laid in heaps in the winter season, at which time only it is useful.

These leaves are much liked by cattle, and they are said to be very nutritious to them.