CATTLE ONE YEAR OLU — SUMMER AND WINTICK 6l 



offered to giving salt daily in the food, when the object 

 in thus adding it is to give increased relish for the same, 

 providing too much is not gi^'en. It may be commend- 

 able to give it thus, but wlien so given this may not 

 entirely preclude the necessity for keeping it at all times 

 accessible to the animals. The reasons for feeding salt 

 are given at some length in the book, " Feeding Farm 

 Animals," by the author. 



When carrying such animals through the winter 

 the aim should be to feed foods lowest in palatability in 

 the earl}^ part of the winter, reserving those that are 

 more palatable to a later period. Among the reasons 

 for so doing are the following: (i) The whole s_ystem 

 is possessed of more vigor relatively, as a rule, in the 

 early winter than toward spring, hence the appetite is 

 keener. (2) In consonance with the above, and as a 

 result of it, the digestion and assimilation are in better 

 tone. (3) Certain foods, as fodder corn and the sor- 

 ghums, lose considerabh' in palatability and also in 

 nutritive qualities as the season advances. A\'hen the 

 fodder suppl}' consists of straw of the small cereals and 

 corn or sorghum fodder and hay, the aim should be to 

 consume straw and corn or sorghum fodder first and 

 the hay later. Similar discretion should be exercised in 

 regard to the feeding of different varieties of field roots, 

 owing to a difference in the keeping qualities. As a 

 rule, when grain is fed, the quantity fed is increased 

 more or less toward spring. Serious loss will result 

 when the food fed toward spring must of necessity have 

 less palatability and nutrition than that fed in the early 

 winter. 



