| Show EFFICIENT F am LIVESTOCK management T i lly ky dr guslav 1 emeritus professor of animal husbandry lluu bandry university of wisconsin As A a furlet serviced servi cei to our ro raaf adors leflora on local fading problems problem may be b sont nt to dr Doht dt at t tho salt 33 north lasalle chicago 2131 2 salt Is essential in ili body process salt la is vital to all living crea tures and its two clements ile ments ed ad cuirn and chlorine di lorino serve nerve several purposes in life processes I 1 1 becq tile hie human re 1 rein sit for to malt bait tho illinois illinoia au state late medical cical Socie tys committee on nutrition issued an emphatic warning warning against the fad for or solf imp salt bait free salt poor or 0 low sodium diets diet the warning states that sodium Is ia vital to the life of every cell in the alio body and that tha chlorine is ia also required tor health per for instance an adequate sup ply of chlorine dr I 1 permits the body to manufacture h hydrochloric dro acid a component or of the die gastric juice which is necessary to digestion the in medical edical warning barnin concludes dont go on a foi low salt diet unless ordered to do so ao by a physician of edurise course your dairy cows your swine sheep or steers are not liable to go on a low salt diet to slenderize or in the belief that the diet will lower their blood pressure however if they are not fed their full requirement of salt their health will suffer buffer and you will lose milk meat and wool OS as a result of their lowered efficiency fici ency health growth froth production work aad life itself depend on the presence of salt your animals blood for instance contains more salt than all other minerals combined nature knew what she was about when she put so much sodium and chlorine into this vital circulating tissue of the body she knew that salt con trola the water content of the body by regulating the permeability of the cell walls and that aoi lurn bakeis parl part in during every sing dinglo a breath it is till sodium of the blood that carries the hie caison dl 11 oxide 0 out t of tile the system 1 alide while tile chlorine di lorino from the blodys salt burnly gots gota to for form ing the hydric hydrochloric loric acid of the digestive juices cices tile the sodium becomes part of the hile lie that la Is so BO necessary for dig digestion cotlon there are other ramifications ramification a of the functions of salt bait in the body processes but it should suffice to point to its ita essentiality ess e utia lity in the three basic body activities blood circulation respiration and digestion it sometimes seems that tile animals know their need for salt better than the farmer because when it is i available th they cia t only I 1 what they neel need and ah when 1 it it M r not available they search for or it t and go to great lengths lenotha to obtain fo it t question I 1 la Is it better to feed con cen separately or of on top of ilaga silage what ore are the merits for the two systems yate rosT answers I 1 dont believe this thin question im has been put to a critical test but from observations observation a of rumi jults that were slaughtered fed immediately after being fed ot or watered the solids and liquids are not channeled quantitatively to any particular part of the compound und stomach they are apt to be 9 splashed over the contents of more than one stomach the roughage boughs a or coarse part of the ration aces does of course go directly to the paunch to be later rek led to the mouth for further chewing and then re swallowed most entrapped grain has previously previously been washed rearward r war to the true stomach and the intestines so it seems that whether grain is fed separately as in a milking parlor ill I 1 0 r or is in fed on top of silage it will i ll 11 ultimately be digested regardless |
