CHAPTER XVI 



GROWING AND FITTING CATTLE FOR 

 EXHIBITION 



In the discussion the following phases of the sub- 

 ject will be considered: (i) How to secure the animals; 

 (2) When the calves should come; (3) Milk furnished 

 and its sources; (4) Fodders fed at different ages; (5) 

 Grain fed at different ages ; (6) Roots fed at different 

 ages; (7) Management on pasture; (8) Training for 

 the shows; (9) Washing cattle to be shown; (10) Fat 

 cattle in transit for the fairs; (11) Management on re- 

 turning from fairs; (12) Exhibiting bulls in the beef 

 classes; (13) Exhibiting females in the beef classes; 

 (14) Exhibiting dairy and dual types; and (15) Mis- 

 cellaneous observations. 



The discussion, in so far as it relates to selection, 

 will scarcely touch upon the question of inheritance and 

 the influence which it exerts, as these have been dis- 

 cussed at length by the author in the books, " Animal 

 Breeding " and " Feeding Farm Animals." It will dwell 

 mainly upon the feeding and details of management 

 that, under average conditions, will be found helpful in 

 the growing and fitting of animals for exhibition in the 

 fat classes. The fitting of breeding animals will only be 

 discussed in so far as the methods differ from those that 

 should be followed when growing and fitting animals in 

 the fat stock classes. 



How to secure the animals. — As those animals only 

 that have an aggregation of best qualities centered in 

 their conformation and development have any chance 

 of winning, and as heredity exercises a powerful in- 

 fluence on the possession of such qualities, those that 



