. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . d not, however, bedeprived of sunshine the entire day. If confined 112 PROFITABLE STOCK FEEDING. during the middle of hot summer days, they shouldbe given the privilege of the pasture lot the re-mainder of the day for both light and exercise. Inwinter, should have the suns rays as muchas possible. Fresh, pure water should be provided in additionto milk. Salt is also needed. For convenience it can beplaced in a box nailed within the shelter, where thecalves may lick it whenever so inclined. Loosesalt is preferable to rock salt. With th
. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . d not, however, bedeprived of sunshine the entire day. If confined 112 PROFITABLE STOCK FEEDING. during the middle of hot summer days, they shouldbe given the privilege of the pasture lot the re-mainder of the day for both light and exercise. Inwinter, should have the suns rays as muchas possible. Fresh, pure water should be provided in additionto milk. Salt is also needed. For convenience it can beplaced in a box nailed within the shelter, where thecalves may lick it whenever so inclined. Loosesalt is preferable to rock salt. With the exercise of skill and attention to details,calves may be reared on skim milk very success-fully. Probably no animals of any class are moreresponsive to skillful treatment. It is certainly aless expensive method of producing the first fewhundred pounds of beef than to permit the calvesto draw whole milk from the dam ; and, while theymay have less bloom and rotundity of form, theywill have sufficient digestive capacity to insure goodfuture REAR VIEW OF CALF STANCHIONS AS USED AT THE KAN-SAS EXPERIMENT STATION. PART III BEEF CATTLE CHAPTER XI. BEEF TYPE. Meat as a Food.—Notwithstanding the fact thatthere exists a class of people known as vegetarianswho are using their influence against the consump-tion of meat, the industry promises to are particularly fond of meat. We havethe reputation of being the heaviest meat-consum-ing nation in the world, and many attribute muchof our rapid social and industrial advancement tothis fact. Meat is too high in price to be used as astaple article of food in the Old World except inthe more wealthy families. The study of more eco-nomical methods of production, to keep the supplyin America more nearly at a pace with the growingdemands of an increasing population, would seem,therefore, to be of vital interest to consumer aswell as to producer. Nearly all meat consumed comes from domesti-cated farm animals—cattle, sh
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