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Narrowing the nutritive ratio in feeding full-grown animals is 

 for the purpose of lessening the depression of digestibility, to en- 

 liven the temperament, or to increase the production of milk at the 

 expense of laying on fat. 



The different standards given for the same class of animals accord- 

 ing to performance illustrate the manner and direction in which de- 

 sirable changes should be made. 



