Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-03-30
INTELLIGENT FEEDING.
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Tho point on which farming hasualo
iho greatest and yet least noticed adj
vance IS the better understanding that
now prevails among progressive FARM
Pc about Tho feeding Of domestic uni-
mails. II isfmo that % largo part OF The
food that used to Doe giyou 90 stool. was
sithor wasted or was positively iuiur-
gus. It's set. for that matter among
the largo class who give little thought
20 ihoir business aud dospIso the teach
Ing of newspapers and experimental sIa-
lions. To alternately ilrvo aud stun
animals used 90 be- considered iuevi-
table. 70 was the condition OF nature,
and 1t was argued that wild 1uimuls in
state of nature usually maintained
good health Thoo who argued for lot-
Ter feeding than nature method wuro
told that what was gained iu 1Ushmas-
ius w1s likely 90 bn oUH0t ly weaker
constitution. and often hy uu impair
mnf ui th1 digestive functions
That This was sometimes The fact "a
true. Tho science 0l feeding has boon
of comparatively recent growth, and 90
feed Doc tHo beet manner animals whoo
digestion BIAS already been injured ro-
quires moro skill than most feeders
posses. We uro nt last learning that
for tho very best feeding animals must
b. guarded against iuiudicious food
from birth. and even earlier than this.
10 is possible certainly 90 stunt pigs boz
f0fo their birth. aud II Is often d1u1
when breeding sows are fad TOO much
corn. They arc apt in such ease 90 for.
row pigs whose digestion seems 90 u1
impaired oven from birth. Generally
however. young animals hav1 good ap.
politics and are atl1 60 digest what ma.
turo has provided for them. The hrst
milk they got from their dams b. OLE
ways laxative, aud the weakness Of very
young animals Insure them against goi-
tingmoro ut first than Is rood for them.
In fact, for % number II days nfior
birth, sucking their dam provides tho
kind and amount OF food that Is best
Tor growth and future well being Of
tho young animal 10 Us whom th0 nat
uul supply becomes insufficient that tho
injury Co digestion begins. Either tho
young animal b. loft with TOO little, or
1t IL apr 20 Boo greatly overfcd. or led
with what Is TOO hard to digest OF tho
two owls. undertaking Is Che smaller.
There wcro farmers who studied ont
this problem OF feeding before tho days
Of scientific Analysis. Their reasoning
was that good feeding required us near.
~ aa possible o. continuation OF the feed.
ing which young animals received from
thDir dams, tho amount fed being grad
ually increased ns tho animal became
stronger Tho digestive organs. like
all othou 10 tho body. arc strengthened
by use md weakened or injured uy
abuse. What Is called dyspepsia almost
always results from bad feeding. alter
naioly starving aud pampofing, or tho
giving of food that b. difficult Of digOs-
ti0n. Sometimes tho trouble with di-
gosiion is that the food Is not properly
balanced. Tho natural appetite calls
for tho kind OF food that tho system IT,
quircH. II this b. not furnished. any sub
stituto for % viii DO eaten less heartily,
will not receive St. due proportion Of
saliva and will mot digest we'll
Tho analysis Of food showing its az.
fefUnt constituents has only made more
plain tho scnsons Tor tho success Of
some old fashioned feeders and the fail.
uro Of others. BY showing what rations
for growth, Tor fattening and for milk
arc required IL has made Il possible for
all TO beroasonally successful. There IA
FAR less feeding Of corn 90 young or TO
breeding animals than used 20 BE- COM
mon. When corn Is FED now, It Is In
combination with lCss concentrated
forms Of food and those having moro Of
the lcsh, muscle and bono forming ma
tcrinl than has corn. There Is far moro
use Of Zine wheat middlings ns n core
ructiy0 Of tho excessive carbunnccuus
commcnl, and also us nm mid 20 better
digestion, than many farmers imagine.
II they arc luttgniug animals, thoy ole
ten suppose that tho moro concentrated
fattcuing food thoy can got eaten tho
bottcr will Doe tho result. But aliilful
feeders know better. lt IS not what ia
eaten, but what is digcstod and assimi-
lated, that benefits tho futtOniug animal.
With balanced ration and some bulky
food 20 distcnd the stomach, the iatton-
ing animal will eat moro and maintain
It's appetite, which It will not do II fed
only on tho most fattoning food
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