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oil, etc., which would otherwise have gone to cover 

 the frame with I'at. Thus a large portion of the food 

 is consumed or burned in the lungs and blood, to keep 

 the body warm. As the animal grows poorer xmder 

 this condition of things, it becomes less and less able 

 to resist the cold, so that at last about all of its nutri- 

 ment is used up, in the action necessary to keep it 

 from freezing. 



The animal that has a sheltered yard with plenty 

 of litter, with sheds facing to the south, for the day, and 

 good stables or other shelter for the night, is con- 

 stantly warm and comfortable; for these reasons re- 

 spiration does not need to be so rapid, and the larger 

 part of its food goes to the support and increase of its 

 body. Under such circumstances, we might expect a 

 smaller quantity of nourishment to produce a greater 

 increase of weight ;!"•! •'-■^^ ■•^ *'">'}'] »'> ff^ -.vtually the 

 case. 



The amount of r\»rtis«' taKcn, nas aiso much influ- 

 ence. When animals are fattening, the less exercise 

 of a violent n.iture that they take, the bi'tter; ' v 



exertion increases the depth and frtnjuency <■ 

 ing, and so of counte makes a draft ujum 

 The more tramiuil and quiet the state then, i a 



the animal is kept, the more readily will fat accumu- 

 late. 



a. This is shown by the well known fact, that tur* 

 kies, pigeons, and other fowU, when shut up in the 

 dark, will fatten with verv great rapidity, in such a 



i)eing BO 

 item reit- 

 lesN, they ha\e nothing to attend to but eating, aleap- 

 ing, and digesting. 



Some experiments have also been made, on the ad* 

 vantage of fattening animals by feeding in confine- 

 raent, as contrasted with others at iil>erty. In ProC 

 Johnston's L*Tturcs, are given the results of an experi- 



