Fattening Cattle
When i« comparatively young it abounds in fresh-forming: substances and sugar. As the plant ripens the sugar becomes charged into starch Wand the starch into wood fibre. This shows the desirability of cutting all grass crops tor hay be'bre they have fully ripened. In Europe cattle feed upon over-ripened hay, nave to conflume some 14 or 15 per cent more ot indigestible woody- fibre. Some experiment* in feeding with hay alone hafe shown that in a large ox the store condition may be maintained by giving it about one-fiftieth of its own five weight per day ; or, if working, one-fortieth. A fattening ox, having nothing else, ( will consume from one twentieth to o/ie twenty-fitth of it*. Jive weight, liccording it* the degree oi fatness it har attained. Sheep are •aid to consume about one-thirtietb part o/irfwi? |if» *$p* ?£^ t*? dajN; ■ '■ ' -.-"■ ■"■-'■ "■'■?•; •■ "'■; ' '•-•■-.-.,
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 80, 8 December 1883, Page 3
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142Fattening Cattle Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 80, 8 December 1883, Page 3
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