CHAPTER XIX. 



CONSIDERATIONS THAT RELATE TO GENERAL 

 FEEDING. 



Prominent among the considerations that relate to 

 general feeding are the following. 



1. Generous feeding during pregnancy. 



2. Feeding the first milk. 



3. Food for maintenance. 



4. Growth and future production. 



5. Foods vary in adaptation. 



6. Foods that influence digestion. 



7. When to feed concentrates. 



8. Proportion of concentrates to roughage. 



9. Changing foods. 



10. Adjusting foods and needs of animals. 



11. Foods, home grown or purchased. 



12. Relative food values. 



13. Sustaining power of pastures. 



14. Condimental foods. 



15. The place for self-feeders. 



1 6. Relative profits from domestic animals. 

 These are discussed in the order named. 



Generous feeding during pregnancy. The opinion 

 has become widely prevalent that what may be termed high 

 condition or fleshiness in the pregnant dam tells adversely 

 on reproduction. It has been claimed that it tells adversely 

 on the development of the young animal in uter'o and that 

 it is the harbinger of trouble at the time of parturition. 

 This opinion rests doubtless on the observed facts, that the 

 progeny of very fat dams when born is of small size, and 

 that trouble does arise more frequently with such dams 

 and also with their progeny at paturition than with dams 

 less fleshy. But it fails to take into account the source from 

 which the fat has come, as is shown below. In discussing 



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