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Excerpt from Organization-Announcements: Bozeman, Montana, March, 1894Before passing to the next division of the subject, let us review brie¿y how animals grow and live. All animals live directlv or indirectly on foods furnished by plants. The plant grows through the union of chemical compounds taken from the air and soil and brought up into its structure, through that mysterious principle called life, by the energy' of the sun. The sun pouring its rays day after day in sum mer time, furnishes the energy which welds the simpler compounds into the more complex ones of the plant organ ism. In summer time our animals cr0p the grasses of the fields, and in the fall man gathers plants and their seeds into barns and storehouses that in winter time he may pass them over to his farm animals for sustenance and growth. The compounds in the plant substance are separated in the laboratory of the stomach and digestive tract and carried about the body, where they are built up into the body tissues or stored up as fat, or they may be burned up at once if needed to give out energy and warmth. Dr. Armsby has happily used the figure of a coiled spring to illustrate this wonderful phenomenon. The energy of the sun in sum mer time winds up the spring in the plant. And when the animal consumes the plant the spring is unwound and exhibits just as much energy in the unwinding as was used in winding it up.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.