Fattening Sentence Examples

This is one of the factors in its value for fattening purposes.

Oranges are exported to Buenos Aires, Rosario and Montevideo, and are largely used for fattening hogs.

Fattening pigs are fed three times a day and supplied with coal-ashes or a few handfuls of earth.

The rich pastoral regions where dairy-farming and the fattening of cattle are carried on with most success, viz.

Hyphear is useful for fattening cattle if they are hardy enough to withstand the purgative effect it produces at first; viscum is medicinally of value as an emollient, and in cases of tumour, ulcers and the like.

West, west-central and eastern France outside these areas, where meadows are predominant and both dairying and fattening are general.

The lands are admirably adapted for cattle-breeding purposes, although not capable of fattening animals.

In the fattening of animals for the butcher the principle of 2 Returns for only ten months were available for this year.

Fjord's Danish experiments show that for fattening pigs i lb of ryeor barley-meal is equivalent to 6 lb of skim-milk or 12 lb of whey, and i lb of meal equivalent to 8 lb of mangolds or 4 lb of potatoes.

It is very tolerant of fresh water, fattening best, as does the oyster, in water of density 1014 (the density of the water of the North Sea being 1026).

Cumberland and Durham, but its chief value is for crossing, when it is found to promote maturity and to improve the fattening propensity.

Fattening tegs usually go on to soft turnips in the end of September or beginning of October, and later on to yellows, green-rounds and swedes and, in spring and early summer, mangolds.

In considering the oyster-culture in France it is necessary to distinguish the centres of production from the centres of rearing or fattening.

Arthur Young, with whom he had corresponded years before on the mysteries of deep ploughing and fattening hogs, added a cogent polemical chapter to that ever admirable work, in which he showed that he knew as much more than Burke about the old system of France as he knew more than Burke about soils and roots.

To these must be added the fattening of geese for Strassburg's celebrated pâtés de foie gras, which forms a useful source of income to the poorer classes.

It is also ideal land for fattening beef cattle and you still see some of the beautiful white-faced Herefords grazing on the lush pasture.

For example, if this diet is very fattening, John will tend to gain more than you will.

Carbohydrates are not fattening, potatoes contain no fat at all!

In this manner, holding and fattening smaller tilapia is comparable with livestock holdings.

Over and above the great advantage arising from the opportunity which the growth of root-crops affords for the cleaning of the land, the benefits of growing the root-crop in rotation are due (1) to the large amount of manure applied for its growth, (2) to the large residue of the manure left in the soil for future crops, (3) to the large amount of matter at once returned as manure again in the leaves, (4) to the large amount of food produced, and (5) to the small proportion of the most important manurial constituents of the roots which is retained by store or fattening animals consuming them, the rest returning as manure again; though, when the roots are consumed for the production of milk, a much larger proportion of the constituents is lost to the manure.

It was not till the closing decade of the 19th century that the stock-breeders of the United Kingdom found themselves in a position to prosecute their industry free from the fear of the introduction of contagious disease through the medium of store animals imported from abroad for fattening on the native pastures.

On the average rather more than half the total of cattle is made up of store animals for fattening or breeding purposes, the fattening of Irish stores being a business of considerable magnitude in Norfolk and other counties.

You can also offer less fattening treats to help cut down on weight gain.

The fattening starches such as corn, wheat, potato or tapioca used to hold dry kibble together could also be contributing to the epidemic of obesity and other health issues in our dogs and cats.

Some types of microwave popcorn are even more fattening, since additional butter-flavored oils are added to enhance the flavor.

It's fine to have food preferences, but allowing your child to dictate a diet that consists of expensive processed sugary treats or fattening fried foods is not smart.

Eating Mexican can be fattening, but if you know how many points you'll be consuming you can plan accordingly throughout the day.

Like Weight Watchers, one can eat enjoyable foods, those that some consider "fattening," yet still lose weight.

Many people believe that they can pop a pill (diet supplement) every day, eat the same fattening foods, refuse to exercise, and lose weight.

Salads full of cheese and fattening dressings, and in some cases even fried chicken or bacon bits, sometimes contain even more calories and fat than burgers.

We all have some idea of how fattening and chocked full of calories most fast food is, but most don't know the exact numbers.

Though apples do contain some carbohydrates, they are much healthier than greasy fried foods or a baked potato loaded with fattening toppings.

This has led many diet and nutrition experts to hypothesize that foods containing fat are more fattening than foods without them.

They meet a bride-to-be who has spent the past two months in a so-called "fattening hut," where she drinks ghee all day in an attempt to gain weight before her wedding.

The fattening of animals was conducted on more scientific principles.

Hence, as current fattening food-stuffs go - assuming, of course, that they are not abnormally low in the nitrogenous constituents - they are, as foods, more valuable in proportion to their richness in digestible and available nonnitrogenous than to that of their nitrogenous constituents.

Lastly there is a form " soil," used by agriculturists, of the feeding and fattening of cattle with green food such as vetches.

Swift's grave humour and power of enforcing momentous truth by ludicrous exaggeration were next displayed in his Modest Proposal for Preventing the' Children of Poor People from being a Burden to their Parents or the Country, by fattening and eating them (1729), a parallel to the Argument against Abolishing Christianity, and as great a masterpiece of tragic as the latter is of comic irony.

The ewes, although difficult to confine by ordinary fences, are in high favour in lowland districts for breeding fattening lambs to Down and other early maturity rams.