The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-11-02
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mos. rapid process, not studying the
nature of the animal, ply it with con
centrated food, and thus create fever
and other diseases ia the system. The
Illuminating animals arc possessed of
capacious stomachs, calculated to reduce
bulky and fbrous food. But they are,
nevertheless, capable of using, largely,
the concent ~ated grains, if properly
mixed with the more fibrous foods. 1t
is by judicious mingling of foods that
the breeder of improved stock is able to
produce the matured OK at 80 months,
half the natural time. Those distorted
animals, sometimes sent to fairs to ex-
cite the wonder of the multitude and
take premiums, have b ,en reared with
out any strict regard to the laws Of
animal nutrition. They have been
have been crammcd with too concen
tratcd and too carbonaceous food. The
fat is piled up in roots and lunches
has been laid on at the expense of the
muscular systematic lungs often in a
partially congested state and the liver
enlarged. These are not healthy, and
their flesh unwholsome food. We do
not wish to advocate such feeding or
irrational prccocity.
GREATEST PROFIT IN FEEDING BEFORE
MATURITY.
As we have seen, the digestive and
assinilative organs of the young animal
are in much greater activity than after
maturity. 1t is the business of the far
mer to grow animals for human food,
not to keep them after they are grown.
This keeping animals after maturity is
expensive and proftless business. 1t
requires double the amount of food to
produce thousand pounds of pork in
hogs of 2 as Of year old and less at 10
months tuall it tNClNc.
Prof. Miles, at the Michigan College
Farm, in two separate experiments
1866 and 1S6S--fed young pigs upon
milk; in the former and the latter 6
pigs; and the average amount of milk
to produce one pound of live weight
was, LIST week, SIC TBS; I'd week, rs
TBS; Sd week, 1928 TBS; 4th week, 10
AZ Tbs. The professor says the cause
Of its requiring greater amount Of
milk the Sd week is explained by de-
rangement of the stomach. He also re
marks that the amount of milk necessary
to produce pound of live weight con-
stantly increases. The experiment of
1868 was continued afterwards for 20
weeks upon corn meal. He divided
this part of the experiment into five
periods of four weeks each. The amt
of meal required to make one pound is,
LIST period, 3Sl lbs: I'd, 4O5; Sd, 4.22;
4th, 5.24; 9Th, 599 TBS. In 1869 anoth-
er experiment with greater number Of
pigs produced substantially the same
results.
1t will be seen that in the 9Th period
when the hogs were from "a TO %
weeks old, it took IS per cent. more
than when the pigs were from $ to II
weeks old.
Prof. Miles SAYS: "Thc Importance Of
the earl V maturity Of animals, raised for
meat, is clearly shown in this series of
experiments. In the manufacture of
pork the best returns for the feed used
will be obtained by liberal feeding du-
during the earl y stages of growth; and
the same may be said of all animals
raised for the butcher.''
This is unquestionablv sound doctrine
and those farmers who have been in the
habit of feeding their hogs, in state
of imperceptable growth, to the age Of
- to IS months. before commencing to
fattcn them. will do well to notice these
facts, and in future to act upon them.
The simple statement that hog may.
under a healthy system of feeding, b"
made to weigh as much at 10 months as
under ordinary feeding at 20, shows
most clearly how Improbable this slow
growth is.
How TO FEED YOUNG ANIMALS.
Having determined that generous
feeding during the period of growth, is
the most profitable, let US next consider
the principles Of feeding.
Animals should receive various treat
ment, according to the purpose for
which they are reared. Those intended
for labor should be given abundant lib
and endurance.
Liberal feeding is quite compatible
with the best working qualities. They
should he fed expressly ior the develop
grasse. in ~ummeI-clover, o t meal,
PEA meal, etc, in winter. But these
concentrated grains should always be
mixed with the coar~er food, for reasons
before mentioned.
Young animals are particularly sensi.
tive to the heating effects of too concen
trated TODD but 1t IL perfectly safe TO
feed colts upon the heaviest gains if
mixed with two or three times their
bulk IN cut hay or other fodder. The
dam er consists of feeding these alone.
When the fine particles of meal are sep
arated 10y the coarser woody fibre, meal
is prevented from compacting in the
stomach and thus become impcnctrable
to the solvent powers of the gastric
Juice This matter is of the highest i'm