They were fatting on the grass only; and, I should suppose, that they are worth, or shortly will be, thirty pounds each.
This very day, for instance, what a sorry sight is a flock of fatting sheep upon turnips; what a mess of dirt and stubble!
Those fatting pigs which had not already been converted into bacon for consumption in the farm-house were fed mainly on meal ground at the local wind or water mill from the tail corn grown by the farmer.
The fatting pig which pays best is one which has a short life and a merry one, never having to seek or wait for its food.
Even the old system of feeding twice a day might be improved upon, and the fatting pig fed three times per day would make greater thrift, even should the actual daily quantity of food be not increased.
Still another of the fallacies of our forbears was that the fatting pig made the greatest increase from a given quantity of food when it was at least approaching maturity and ripeness, or complete fatness.
Again, so many persons are apt to give to the fatting pig a greater quantity of food than it requires or can eat with comfort to itself at one meal.
Further it is just as much a mistake for fatting pigs as for human beings to be continually eating, or at irregular intervals, small quantities of food.
Amongst these ideas which the old-fashioned ones looked upon as fads, was that of feeding pigs of all ages and especially fatting pigs on a certain proportion of vegetable food.
The two most certain indications that a lot of fatting pigs are thriving is to find that they are asleep and that their feeding troughs are empty.
There is nothing that a fatting fowl grows so fastidious about as his water.
Of nourishing andfatting Herns, Puets, Gulls, and Bitterns.
For the fatting of turkies sodden barley is excellent, or sodden oats for the first fortnight, and then for another fortnight cram them in all sorts as you cram your capon, and they will be fat beyond measure.
No food short of that of a fatting hog will enable her to keep her pigs alive; and this she must have for ten weeks, and that at a great expense.
I should think that the cabbages or lettuces perform half the work of keeping and fatting my geese; and these are things that really cost nothing.
This corn is the very best for hog-fatting in the whole world.
The sow must live as well as a fatting hog, or the pigs will be good for little.
The nutritious nature of barley is amply proved by the effect, and very rapid effect, of its meal, in the fatting of hogs and of poultry of all descriptions.
The modes that are resorted to by the French for fatting geese, nailing them down by their webs, and other acts of cruelty, are, I hope, such as Englishmen will never think of.
I dismounted, examined the trail carefully, and saw that it was made by a very old fat bear; it was in the fatting season, when the bear frequently interrupts its sleep and pays a nocturnal visit to the water.
On the 3rd of February fatting commenced with linseed-cake in addition to cut Swedes.
All, except the fatting sheep, were folded on the stubbles, and allowed a daily run on the park of about an hour for each flock.
I consider the pulping of roots is better for fatting pigs than anything else.
It is then ready for use, to be carried to the pigs in the stalls alongside the fatting beasts.
St. Mark's tide--the cow white, andfatting cattle at Lammas.
There are no more "proofey" fatting grounds in Wilts.
An animal with an ox-like head and neck, which never breeds, but is excellent for fatting purposes.
We also advise to this variety of crops, in order that the cattle may have a greater variety of food, a matter of considerable importance in feeding and fatting cattle.
Footnote 4: The fatting house is a room where a girl is kept for some weeks previous to her marriage.
The other residents follow the diversified farming, based on grazing, which in this country includes fatting of calves and pigs, raising of poultry and other small agricultural industries.
In "Some Glimpses of the Past," Miss Taber says: "But the chief business of most farmers was the fatting of cattle.
The resident at Site 3 has for about twenty years maintained a slaughter-house and a wagon for the sale of meat, using his land for fatting cattle and sheep, and selling the meat along two routes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fatting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
