CHAPTER VI 



THE FEEDING OF GROWING ANIMALS FOR 

 BREEDING OR FATTENING 



A FULLY grown animal is practically in a state 

 of permanence, and gives out exactly as 

 much as it takes in. During fattening, in spite of 

 the most liberal feeding, there is only very little, 

 if any, protein or mineral matter added to the body 

 substance, the increase being almost entirely fat. 

 With a growing animal, on the contrary, when it 

 receives sufficient food there is a regular gain in its 

 nitrogenous and mineral components. There is no 

 cessation in the development of the organs of grow- 

 ing animals, not even when as much is taken in as is 

 given out, for in such a case some of the organs 

 would grow at the expense of the others, a condi- 

 tion which naturally could only be maintained for 

 a certain time. 



When the rate at which young animals lay on 

 flesh and mineral substances is considered, it is 

 easy to understand how some have thought that 

 the maintenance requirements are less during 

 growth than later, and that with young cattle the 



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