Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-02-15
THE FARM AND HOME.
THE SCIENCE OF FEEDING
STUDIED BY FARMERS.
Alternate Starving nnd stunlns Ia En-
tiroly Out of Date Tanning skins for
Home Use-So Don't-Fnrm Notes
mud Home Hints.


hbblNCu uuNulNc - Nil1 oSbtNl
understanding that now prevails
among progressive farmers about
the feeding OF domestic ami
mails. 1t is true that large
part of the food that used to be given
to stock was either wasted or was
positively injurious 1t is yet, for
that matter, among tie large class
who give little thought to their bust
ness and despise the teaching of
newspgpsns and experimental sta
tions. To Alternately starve and
stuff animals used to be considered
inevitable 1t was the condition Of
nature, and it was argued that wild
animals in state of nature usually
maintained good health. Those who
argued for better feeding than ma
lures methods were told that what
was gained in flesh making was
likely to be offset by weaker consti'
buttons, and often by an impairment
of the digestive functions.
That this was lsometimes fact
was trAa>N~Jhe science of feeding
has been of comparatively recent
growth, and to feed in the best man
ner animals whose digestion has
already been injured requires II orc
skill than most feeders possess. We
are at last learning that for the
very best feeding animals must be
guarded against injudicious food
from birth, and even earlier than
this 1t is possible certainly to
stunt pigs before their birth, and it
is often done when breeding sows
are fed too much corn. They are
apt in such a case to farrow pigs
whose digestion seems to be impaired
even from birth. Generally, how
over, young animals have good appc-
titles and are able to digest what
nature has provided for them. The
first milk they get from their dams
is always laxative, and tho weakness
OF very young animals insures them
against getting more at first than is
good for them. In fact, for number
of days aftor birth, sucking their
dams provides the kind and amount
of food that is best for growth and
future we'll being of the animal. 1t
is when the natural supply becomes
insufficient that the injury to diges-
tion begins. Either the young ami
1919. iSFd 20 digest. of,she
: SSo ssg 4nder feeding is the
, 1heref re farmers who studied
r ouo thls0Iblem OF feeding before
| inc days= scientific analysis, says
the Anne hn Cultivator. Their rea-
= sonlng + that good feeding re.
; CURED Parly as possible CON
tinuatlop the feeding which young
uhlmals eiyed from their dams,
inc amou' fed being gradually in
creased the animal became
stronger he digestive organs, like
al others ethe body, are strength
ened by u hnd weakened or injured
oy abuse. hat is called dyspepsia
almos6 ally S results from bad feed
ing, alterrIely starving and pam
perlhg' orah 81 wing of food that is
alincult OF gestion. Sometimes the
trou Die wi. digestion is that the
1000 Is not Ioperly balanced. The
natural appite calls for the kind o t
food that t, system requires. II
this is not finished any substitute
Tor it will beaten less heartily. will
not receive its due proportion of
saliva and VII not digest well.
Inc analyis of food showing its
different continents has only made
more plain to reasons for the suo-
cess OF som, old-fashioned feeders
and the failuo of others. BY show
ing what ratlns for growth. for fat
tenlng and MIX require it has made
IL possible TO all to be reasonably
successful. .'hero is far less feeding
OF corn to yang or to breeding ami
mails than usd to be common. When
corn is fed nov it is in combination
with less concentrated forms of food
ana those having more Of the flesh.
muscle and oone-forming material
IMAM mas corr There is far moro
use OF tne Wheat middlings as a cor
rective of the excessive carbonace-
Gus corn mealand also as an aid to
netter digestion. than many farmers
Imagine. If shey are fattening ami.
mas they ofen suppose that the
more concentrated fatteninp food
they can get eaten. the better will
be the result. But skillful feeders
know better 1t is not what is eaten
Out what is dieested and assimiiated
may benefits the fattening animal
With balanced ration and some
bulky food to distend the stomach
he fattening animal will eat more
lnd maintain its appetite, which it
will not do II fed only on the most
attening food.
Tanning Sldns for Home Use.
NO more chedp and simple process
an be desired lhan to apnlv to tba