HOW PRIZE ANIMALS ARE FED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 23, 20 February 1909, Page 4

HOW PRIZE ANIMALS ARE FED.

Few people outside the agricultural sphere are aware of the trouble and expense incurred in the breeding of prize animals. In addition to regular courses of exercise taken under careful attention, special diet lias to be provided which will strengthen and fatten beats intended for the show-yard. Until these animals are nearly two years old they are cared for as carefully as the young mother's first baby. After that age they arc fed on corn and cake, varying in quantity between 4 1 /nst and list per week. In addition they consume a quantity of hay and a never-ending suppU of good roots. The average cost of this food is between i)di and Is 3d per day. Again, these animals have to be housed in well-kept stalls and yards, and, at the least, straw bedding has to be supplied for sleeping purposes. A great deal of attention has to be paid to the feet of these animals, particularly -n regard to cows and bullocks, and all prize beasts have to take two or three ''constitutionals" of about a quarter of au hour each day. Prize bullocks have to be washed with soft soap two or three times a week, and every day they have to be carefully groomed in order to preserve a clean and attractive coat. In the case of pigs a good deal or attention lias to be bestowed. Pigs fatten so quickly on good food that particular care is devoted to tile selection of suitable diet.