The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-08
OVER-ESTIMATED.
Tendency to Growth and Accumulation
of Fat in Farm Animals.

Tendency to Growth and Accumulation
of Fat in Farm Animals.
1t Is hindranee to making sound
Roadway 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 hindrance is,
that reaction occurs when man only
partially informed finds the high-bred
beast consumes food as rapidly and in
as large quantities as the scrub. There
is in the minds of many men 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 a physical impossibility
with any quadruped living, just as it is
to grow hundred bushels of corn on
IN acre of light soil. When an inn
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 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
fhav Sc rs ~
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 fat, 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
sect practice to count unduly upon any
grade of improvement of food below
minimum. And clearly a maximum
OF growth can not be expected from a
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
it parts with speedily if scantly fed.
The advantages to be secured through
handling improved farm animals may
be likened to those secured by having
superior quality of yeast-quicker and
greater results can be obtained, and the
quality of the resulting product is bet
ter; or in using superior quality of
burning oil, as the quality Of the prod
uct fully compensates for the added
cost II man invest in a high-bred
trotting horse, he gets no advantages
from the superiority of this horse over
others, unless he utilities 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 it can, as with the trotting
horse. be depended upon for better re-
suits if properly managed. With the
ordinary so-called native. men are con-
fined with n such narrow limits that the
best and most skillfully directed e.iorts
TO bring other than very ordinary re-
suits viii 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 viii 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 fairness. The man
who buys select animals and then re
treats within his shell, like turtle. IN
der the idea that he has possessed him.
self of piece of property that will hold
tenaeiously to all the good il he'd shcu
it at time of purchase, through the force
of innate influence, will wake up, Rip
Van Wrinkle like, to a discovery of his
mistake National Lice Stool; Journal