Animal breeding; by Shaw Thomas 1843-

Author:Shaw, Thomas, 1843- [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Cattle
Publisher: New York and Chicago, O. Judd company
Published: 1903-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

•fered with when food supplies are short. In other words the former suffers more than the latter when food supplies are insufficient for any prolonged period. And the degree of the ill-doing that follows will be proportionate to the extent to which they have inherited the high capacity for profitable digestion and food assimilation, but on the condition that the food supplies shall be sufficient.

This accounts in part for the ill-doing, not infrequently noticed, of pure bred animals which may have fallen into the hands of careless owners. It also explains, in part, why a large breed or grade of animals introduced into pastures that do not furnish sufficient food for those of so much weight, fare less well than smaller animals. In both instances the equilibrium in digestion is upset.

Abundant Nutrition Wai~ds Off Disease. — An abundant nutrition is a safeguard against the inroads of disease. By strengthening the system it gives it a power to resist the influences of disease which it could not otherwise have. The jDrinciple is so generally conceded that a system naturally weak, debilitated or lacking in robustness falls an easy prey to disease that it does not require to be argued. Any influence therefore that tends to build up and to tone the system, gives it increased power to withstand the inroads of disease, hence the value of an abundant nutrition for such a purpose. When the tendency to disease is transmitted it is also much more likely to remain quiescent when the nutrition is abundant, and for the reason that such abundance in the food tends to keep the system of the animal so well sustained that those inherited tendencies are more than matched ^>y the vigorous condition of the animal.

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