CHAPTER VI. 

 PRINCIPLES THAT RELATE TO RESTFULNESS. 



When animals are not kept perfectly at rest there is 

 waste in the food fed to them proportioned to the degree 

 of the disturbing influence, from whatsoever source it may 

 arise or of whatsoever character it may be. It is 

 seen in less development in growing animals than 

 would otherwise have resulted, in reduced milk flow in 

 the case of milk giving animals, in diminished increase 

 in animals that are being fattened, and in reduced ca- 

 pacity for labor in animals kept for such a use. This 

 suppression or withholding as it were, or reduction of ca- 

 pacity in performance, means in every instance that more 

 food will be utilized in attaining a given end than would 

 otherwise be necessary, since it adds just so much to the 

 food of maintenance that would otherwise be required. 

 Since domestic animals have not the power to proclaim 

 their wrongs in speech, nature has thus furnished them 

 with this mute way of compelling attention that might not 

 otherwise be given. 



Among the many ways in which these disturbing in- 

 fluences manifest themselves are the following: (i) Dis- 

 comfort arising from inclement weather or from protection 

 that is excessive; (2) unrest, caused by insufficient or exces- 

 sive feeding or by an unsuitable bed on which to lie; 

 (3) deprivation resulting from irregularity in feeding 

 or working; (4) suffering, caused by insufficient or 

 irregular water supplies; (5) irritation, caused by the pres- 

 ence of insect life in various forms; (6) injury resulting 

 from labor violent, excessive, unduly prolonged, or per- 

 formed under adverse conditions; (7) harmful results 

 from injury inflicted by vicious animals in the herd or 



