Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-05-08
OvER-ESTIMATED,
Tendency to Growth and Accumulate
of Fat in Farm Animals.


of Fat in Farm Animals.
1t is hindrance to making sound
headway when man starts out with
improved farm animals of any kind on
which he has over-estimated the tenden-
cy to growth and accumulation of fat.
The reason of its being a hindrance is,
that reaction occurs when q man only
partially informed finds the high bred
beast consumes food assrapidly and in
as large quantities as the scrub. There
is in the minds of many men a serious
misrepresentation as to high-bred farm
animals requiring very little food in
proportion to their weight, as compared
to the amount ordinarily consumed by
improved beasts of the same class or
race. To make great and rapid growth
on light feed is physical impossibility
with any quadruped living, Just as it is
to grow a hundred bushels of corn on
an acre of light soil. When an i'm
proved sort of seed is sought for, it is
not with the expectation of obtaining
something that will give an abundant
yield of very large grains, when planted
upon the thinnest land on the premises.
What is wanted is better product, and
in the case of grain there is no expecta-
ton of q liberal yield unless there is
plenty of plant food within reach of the
roots of the grain-bearing plant, and to
this mere feeding there must be added
suitable care and tillage. To expect
more than this is to base expectations
upon calculations that are altogether
erroneous, and disappointment will fol-
low.
1t is better to fortify against all
liability to disappointment by adopting
the homely proposition, that something
can not be got from nothing. The
facilities for converting food into flesh
and tat, OF course, vary greatly in differ
ent animals in the same breed and herd,
and the contrast in this regard between
the improved and the unimproved beast
is, We are quite ready to declare,
still more pronounced; yet it is not cor
rect practice to count unduly upon any
grade of improvement of food below a
minimum. And clearly maximum
OF growth can not be expected from q
minimum of sustenance, with any liv-
ing beast For the clearest physiological
reasons, the scrub beast will stand scant
feed with less shrinkage than the high
bred flesh-making animal; first among
these reasons being the simple fact that
there is less to shrink. The scrub beast
is attenuated in its flesh at best, and
while shrinkage does not materially alter
its outer contour, the improved animal
IS nothing without symmetry, and this
1t part' with speedily if scantly fed.
The advantages to be secured through
handling improved farm animals may
be likened to those secured by having q
superior quality of yeast-quicker and
greater results can be obtained, and the
quality of the resulting product is bet
ter; or In using n superior quality of |
burning oil, as the quality of the prod |
uct fully compensatas for the added |
cost If man invest in q high-bred |
trotting horse, he gets no advantages |
from the superiority of this horse over
others, unless he utilizes his abilities,
gaining something from the powers he |
possesses over those belonging to the |
ordinary horse. The main thing gained |
by the possession of an improved farm
beast is, that 1t can, as with the trotting |
horse. be depended upon for better re,
suits il properly managed. With the
ordinary so-called native. men are con-
fined within such narrow limit, that the
best and most skillfully directed efforts
to bring other than very ordinary re-
suits will be unsuccessful. But the
great error committed by many is, in
expecting, after they have made pur-
chases OF animals of high breeding. that
great results will come. unsought and
without effort The best animal is
nothing unless well fed. Fair growth
and development comes of fairly liberal
feeding. and full growth and symmetry
from full feeding to fatness. The man
who buys select animals and then re-
treats within his shell. like turtle, un.
der the idea that he has possessed him
self OF piece of property that win hold
!enaclously to all the good 1t had about
7 at time of purchase, through tho force
4 innate influence. viii wake up. Rip
Van Winkle Ike, TO discovery OF his
mistake -Nafl0nai Hire Stock JourHal.