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necessary to feed watery foods, such as beet slices, 

 distillery waste, brewers' grains, potato pulp, 

 mangel tops, etc., a suitable quantity of dry food 

 should be given at the same time. Attention must 

 also be paid to the palatableness of the food, and 

 molasses diluted with water and poured over food 

 that has not a very good taste assists the appetite 

 considerably. Common salt can also be used for 

 the same purpose, particularly when large quanti- 

 ties of beet slices, potatoes, potato pulp, or other 

 tasteless foods have to be fed. 



Rapid fattening is cheap fattening. The correct- 

 ness of this is at once seen when it is remembered 

 that that part of the ration which serves for main- 

 tenance has no influence upon production. The 

 longer, therefore, the fattening lasts, so much more 

 will the amount of food be that has to be used for 

 maintenance. Where there is no reason for using 

 a lot of food of little value, a better ration of higher 

 starch equivalent would be more profitable than a 

 more restricted one. 



Plentiful bedding, so that the animal can lie 

 down in comfort, is also important, for exact 

 experiments have shown that metabolism is almost 

 a third greater when an ox is standing than when 

 he is lying down. The temperature of the stall 

 should rather be lower when fattening is being 

 carried on than when feeding for other purposes. 

 Stock receiving large fattening rations generate 



