If pumpkins, roots, apples, or any of them be fed to fattening hogs with corn, the advantage will be salutary.
Carrots are excellent food for horses, either given alone, or along with hay, likewise for fattening stall beasts.
Booth and Argyle's cattle farther on, I felt satisfied as to its fattening qualities.
That day's ride showed me the reed-beds in the light of sound, green, quickly-fattening pastures.
I've heard father talk about the place by the hour; he thinks no end of it—says he never saw better fattening country.
This was addressed to a fair-haired youngster who was arguing with great interest and eagerness the relative fattening merits of shorthorns and Herefords.
The cotton-bush, too, known to indicate first-class fattening country, was plentiful.
The process of fattening may commence when they are six months old, as they require a longer time to become fit for the market than fowls.
The practice of fattening fowls in coops, if carried to a moderate extent, is not objectionable, and may be necessary in many cases.
Cochin-Chinas being much inclined to accumulate internal fat, which frequently results in apoplexy, should not be fed on food of a very fattening character, such as Indian corn.
Fattening ought to be completed in from ten to twenty days.
In addition to its strengthening and fattening qualities rice is considered to improve the delicacy of the flesh.
This will greatly hasten the fatteningand economize the food.
The roots for fattening animals ought to be washed, and steamed or boiled; and when not intended to be fermented, the meal may be scalded with the roots.
Hence, the advantage of carrying the fattening beast to an advanced point, by which not only the quality of carcass is improved, but the quantity is relatively greater for the amount of food consumed.
The ripe sugar-cane is perhaps the most fattening of vegetables, if we except the oily seeds and grain.
All food is intended to meet the demands of respiration and nutrition, and fattening to a greater or less degree.
Let the fattening animals have the best, and after they have cropped it a while, give them a fresh field; and the other animals or sheep can follow and clear off the remaining herbage, preparatory to shutting it up for a new growth.
The Swedes turnip is a good food to commence with fattening cattle and sheep; but where great ripeness in animals is desired, they should be followed with beets, carrots or potatoes, and grain.
But later physiologists have assumed, perhaps from closer and more accurate observations, that the fattening propensity is in the ratio of the smallness of the lungs.
There is a great loss in feeding roots to fattening swine, without cooking.
When cattle have to be purchased for work, or cows for the dairy, it becomes an object to keep them as long as they can be made profitable, and yet be turned off for fattening at a fair price.
The nutritive properties of turnips are diffused through so large a bulk, that we doubt if they can ever be fed to fattening swine with advantage; and they will barely sustain lift when fed to them uncooked.
Make up your mind to either abandon all hope of a dancing career, or to faithfully follow the prescribed routine of proper exercise and non-fattening foods.
I also found out that she had been taking some of the other girls at the studio along with her, fattening them up.
They stared at him, sniffed, bowed, and burned smoulder-sticks, and then were led off to stare too at fat Thumb and fattening Thimble.
Experiments on the fattening of animals by Messrs Lawes and Gilbert help to settle the much-debated question as to whether fat is produced exclusively from nitrogenous food or not.
That water is in itself fattening is of course untrue.
Animals that are not allowed to run over a large area, but are kept in a small inclosure and fed on fattening foods, produce meat of a high quality.
There appears to be a unanimous agreement in regard to the richness of the soil and there are good prospects of sustaining and fattening stock with little trouble.
They look loathsome but are said to be excellent for fattening hogs which would feed on them voraciously.
It'll save us their grazing money this winter, and we can start fattening the tegs in the spring.
We have conversed with several farmers in this section of the United States, and find, as a general thing, that they labor under the impression that spaying is chiefly resorted to with a view of fattening cattle for the market.
Sheep prefer beans to almost any other grain; but neither beans nor peas are sofattening as some other grains, and are used most advantageously along with them.
This will prevent their being cloyed, and will hasten the fattening process.
It may be taken as a general rule, that boiled or prepared food is more nutritious and fattening than raw cold food; the additional expense and labor will be more than compensated by the increased weight and quality.
Large profits had been realized by buying lean cattle during the dry season, fattening them upon alfalfa, and sending them down to Rosario for sale.
Upon these we shall be able to raise four or five crops a year; and one crop in particular, the alfalfa, a sort of lucern for fattening the cattle in time of drought, when the grass is all parched up.
It is very prolific, and will grow extremely quick after the scythe during the summer months: but I fear, from the observations I have made, that it does not possess the fattening quality it is said to have.
Oxen are often fattened on the seed itself; but the cakes after the oil is expressed are a very common and most excellent article for fatteningboth black cattle and sheep.
The seeds of the Beech are very useful for fattening hogs.
The seeds are of several uses to the farmer; a tea is made of it, and mixed with skimmed milk, for fattening house-lambs and calves.
A curious help to fattening beasts, says Markham, is a lean horse or two kept with them, for the beasts delight to feed with them.
This quantity of fat in frugivorous animals, not exposed to the light, and exerting very little muscular motion, reminds us of what has been long since observed in the fattening of geese and oxen.
Its emissaries spread over the islands, fattening themselves at the expense of their dupes, and exercising no small political authority, which has been ere now, and may be again, dangerous to society.
XVII-20] At Rome, the art of fattening them became a serious occupation, which was long studied, and had its precepts and rules.
They invented the art of fattening this viscera, and of increasing its size to such an extent that it often weighed two pounds.
By fattening the poorer horses and making the good ones lean he succeeded in reserving for his own use the fleetest steeds.
They went so far as to put out posters stating that “We are ruled by a woman, and her creatures are fattening off the revenues of the land.
But if I had my way I'd take some of these blackguards who are fattening on the country's helplessness and I'd put 'em in the front line trenches.
No more men like the gentleman sitting three tables away--just behind you; no more of the Baxters fattening on sweated labour.
One of the tallest and most fattening and wholesome of Australian pastoral salt-bushes; also highly recommended for cultivation, as natural plants.
The food seems to have a fattening effect on the aborigines, and they eat large quantities of it after roasting it at the fire.
If eaten by sheep or cattle with empty stomachs, it acts in a similar manner to green clover, and sometimes causes death; but if partaken of sparingly, and with grass, it is said to possess highly fattening qualities.
The fattening of sheep on turnips is much promoted by their having access to a grass field, more especially if it happen to contain whins or heather.
A fresh supply should always be afforded them before the old one is eaten clean, otherwise their fattening will be much retarded.
It is the most concentrated and fattening food to be bought.
Matthews declared that the Marquis intended to hold the bottom permanently for fattening beef-cattle, and to build a cabin there.
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