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along with fats and oils, the fattening process will be slower, because heat 

 and life would have to be supplied from the fats and oils ; if given in ex- 

 cess, starch and sugar will produce fat on animals. 



A young animal, building its bone and muscle, requires different 

 kinds and quantities of food from the more mature one. Hay, straw, and 

 other fodders are best for the immature animal ; they are also heat and 

 fat makers, and would fatten alone, though slowly. 



38. Rapid growth and much fat are opposed to each other ; so, to grow 

 js and also fatten early, requires bone-forming and fat-forming ma- 

 terials they must go together. 



39. A maturing animal cattle two to three years old having built the 

 of its frame, requires less fodders, and more flesh and fat formers. 



Grain in many forms is therefore best for finishing fattening cattle. 



4<). From birth to the time a cattle beast is ripe, the daily rate of in- 

 crease on an average should not be less than one and one-half pound, 

 a three-year-old should weigh 1,600 pounds ; a two and one-half- 

 year-old, 1,360 ; and a two year-old, 1,100 pounds, alive. 



41. But, in fact, the daily rate of increase is more up to two years, than 

 at any time afterwards. A two-year-old, well done to, will weigh 1,400, 

 and if carried on to three years will not scale less than 1,800 pounds. This 

 may be called pre-maturing. 



Very much then of the success of obtaining big weights in a short 

 time, lies in a knowledge of individual character, and the proper propor- 

 tions and kinds of food. 



43. The best kind of permanent pasture a mixture of certain grasses 

 and clovers under favourable conditions, will give a greater daily in- 

 crease than any other form of food. 



44. A two-year-old cattle beast, put to such pasture on 15th May, when 

 it weighs 1,100 pounds, will stand 1,400 on 1st October following. The 

 addition of grain under such circumstances does not add correspondingly 

 to weight, though it does so on comparatively poor pasture. 



IVop.-r >lirltT and water on pasture means forty per cent, of the 

 ase. 



4;. WTiereno first-clase permanent pasture is kept, 11 U l.'>iral>le to pro- 

 vide for short commons by having a uvular supply of green fodders 

 these ritln-r upon tin- 1i.-l.ls ,r ly " soiling." 



fattening cattle in Ontario implies the production of one 

 animal p.-r am-, in plan- of tlnv.- acres of ordinary pasture maintaining 



ps are corn, lur.-rn.-, red clover, 

 oats, ry aii'l ra] 



