nEEDING OF YOl-NG ANIMALS. 146 



animals. The young ones have poor shelter, coarae 

 bo^ hay and straw lor fo<l(ler, and little care of any 

 (' >n. In the main, thty are left to shift for 



'■ . »■*, with poor ffKxl and imperfect accommo- 



dations, trequently with no accommodations at ait, 

 unless the wann side of an old stack of bog hay, or 

 bleached corastalks, can be so called. As they crowd 

 together under its shelter from the wind, and eat some 

 of the hay or st<*lk«j to keep from star> ing, the owner 

 on the saving of food that he 

 I I ask him to consider whetbtMr 



tliis is really the best possible practice, ami think it 

 will not be difficult to show that everj' hour of tbia 

 fancied gain, is in reality a positive loss. It can 

 be made evident from the follow ' ^v. The young 

 animal is, or should be, growi;; : its musclf^ 



aid incn ; ^ 



.ting; its V 

 from tlay to day, in a rapid and almost p« 



manner. This is not to be elfected by such i:, ..l 



as that described above. The real need at this time 

 is for remarkably strengthening and nutritious food — 

 a food that should contain a large proportion of nitro- 

 gen in some form, so as to increase the muscles; and 

 of ph<^hates, to strenE^then and enlarge the bones. 



T' is proiK>rtionally much 



lar^'- n in the old; for, with 



a more active circulation, all parts of the body change 

 their constituent particles more rapidly. Quite 



Gng animals, it is said, often renew their whole 

 ies in the course of a single year. B*^; ' ■ s 

 larger waste, there is the daily increase in 

 ever)' nart to 1k' atti'ndMi to ; the food, therefore, 

 should lye n»itrifin\is enough for \xnh purposes. 



O' In ! young calves often have a small 



portion • 1 meal f«l to them with milk, this 



meal being rich both in nitrogen and in pho6phatc& 



Fat ia not of so much conaequeaoe, uajf ui mdiM 



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