COMPOSITION OF ANIMALS 



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the phosphoric acid at 5 cents and potash at 5 cents, 

 the total money loss will be $5.57. The milk, if 

 sold at 4 cents a quart, would bring $100. Consid- 

 ering the large amount of feed furnished and the 

 large amount of manure resulting therefrom, the 

 loss in plant food is small. If, instead of selling 

 milk, butter is sold, the loss of these three elements 

 will be insignificant. 



FOOD CONSUMED DURING FATTENING PERIOD 



During a ten-week fattening period with hogs the food consumption in- 

 creases more than 50 per cent to produce 100 pounds of increase. There is 

 a limit to which hogs can be profitably fed. 



Percentage of Increase in Fattening. When ani- 

 mals are fattened for market an increase of all con- 

 stituents is noticed. This is shown in the table 

 below. 



INCREASE DURING FATTENING STAGE (WARRINGTON) 



The sheep, during the fattening period, stores up 

 fully four times as much ash as the pig. The sig- 

 nificant thing brought out in this table is the fact 



