784 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



The cattle are fed plentifully. What they leave and that which passes 

 undigested is picked up l)y swine, two hogs being usually allowed to each 

 steer to be fattened, and at the end of the day the hogs are given sonic 

 corn additional, if they need it. Thus, except in very inclement weather, 

 steers may be made fat on al)out fifty bushels of corn in al)out three to 

 four months' feeding, and the shoats require but little additional food to 

 bring them up to heavy weights. 



The best plan we have ever tried for out-door fattening is to feed corn 

 cut at the roots and shocked. This is hauled daily on truck wagons, 

 when the ground is hard, or on sleds when there is snow, and fed, corn 

 and fodder together. The cattle are not expected to eat the fodder clean, 

 but usually they may be expected to consume the blades, which with the 

 ears are the valuable part. The feeding is twice a day, in feeding lots — 

 a lot for the morning feed and one for the evening feed. The cattle 

 being about done with the ears, hogs are turned in to glean the scattered 

 corn and droppings. Thus, whatever the system of feeding, if cattle 

 have shelter from stormy and inclement weather, they may be made very 

 fat, and healthfully so, and, where labor is scarce and corn cheap, at a 

 minimum expense. 



XIX. A Good Condiment. 



We do not believe in condimental food for animals as a rule, but when 

 it is deemed necessary, the following will be found to be a good condi- 

 ment for special feeding, to be given one pound with each feed of meal : 

 Twenty-five pounds ground linseed oil cake, ten pounds ground flaxseed, 

 forty pounds corn-meal, t\venty-f our ounces ground turmeric root, two 

 ounces ginger, two ounces caraway seed, eight ounces gentian, two ounces 

 cream of tartar, one pound sulphur, one pound common salt and ten oun- 

 ces coriander seed. Mix the whole together, and when fed use a quarter 

 of a pound of molasses to each feed, the molasses to be used in the water 

 for wetting the food in whii^h the condiment is given. Where sorghum 

 molasses is made, this will not be found to be expensive. 



XX. So-Called Perfect Poods. 



So much has been said by theorists about perfect foods, and the 

 danger from feeding corn , that many persons have been brought to be- 

 lieve that corn is almost a dangerous food for growing animals ; that thus 

 fed, they will lack bone and muscle, and cannot be expected to grow up 

 healthy. If an animal were to be raised exclusively on corn this might 

 be true, but the same would be true of other grain. Neither horses, 

 cattle, nor sheep can be properly raised exclusively on grain. Oats are 



