FATTENING OLD COWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3551, 25 July 1905, Page 4

FATTENING OLD COWS.

They Should Bo Given n« Mncli Food hs They Will Eat. There is a widespread popular preju-' dice against cow beef, and tV6 suspect that the doctors are very largely responsible for it. Yet we have so often eaten tender and sweet cow beef that our experience long ago taught us that its quality was much more dependent cn the way it had been fattened than it was on the age of the COW. But it is nevertheless true, says American Cultivator, that it is more difficult to fatten an old cow, or an old animal of any kind, than it is to fatten young animals. i begin to fail, the food is ; ! , , vm-slicated as it used to be, I C .ii.r;qi.. hce digestion is re“"V. j of undigested ■■ and 1 ■ ’••• ’•■ \v does , ,/r,i what lush il j.ut.s on is less u nder and sweet than it should be. The common prac- , . '■ ■ , ’ COl’ll, 00(1 < ( hev can be I’.;'". The ' f,. - • .*• milk are be. ' ' f to make it ab v. .... i,uoi..d ne. A cow properly fattened should be given as much succulent food as she will eat, and at first be fed .with bran or meal rather sparingly. If she is very thin in flesh her beef may be made,all the better, provided this condition does not show the :■ < ' :ve or ‘ gans. V. ■ -cd that when yon begin feeding her is little more Ilian skin and bones, with enough flesh to hold them together, it stands to reason that most of the flesh and fat you can put on her by three or four months good feeding will be newfles'h and fat, an- 1 just ns good as if put on a two-yea - c l b. bodily system is h Tby the small ' :! llb the flesh, :.r- • orrymgoff waste it with IIPW be that the In.. , - ......edevery jU!T6ii years. Uut scientists are now agreed that most parts of it arc renewed much quicker than this, as anyone may sec 1 W-'ugof acut or bruise when ax*. ..ml Inc germs it contains are excluded from it.