'Empress of Blandings,' he said proudly, 'has won the silver medal three years in succession in the Fat Pigs event at the Shropshire Agricultural Show.'A Pelican at Blandings, by P.G. Wodehouse
'You're kidding!'
'I can show you the medals. It was an unparalleled feat.'
'To what did she owe her success?'
'Careful feeding.'
'I thought as much.'
'Some pig owners are guided by other authorities and for all I know,' said Lord Emsworth generously, 'get quite good results, but I have always pinned my faith on Wolff-Lehman. According to the Wolff-Lehman feeding standards a pig must consume daily nourishment amounting to fifty-seven thousand calories, proteins four pounds five ounces, carbohydrates twenty-five pounds.'
'Exclusive, of course, of the last thing at night raid on the ice box?'
'These calories to consist of barley meal, maize meal, linseed meal and separated buttermilk. I occasionally add on my own initiative a banana or a potato . . .''
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ReplyDeleteHe said that Empress of blandings had won the silver medal three years in succession in the Fat Pigs event at the Shropshire Agriculal Show.
ReplyDeleteSomeone said he were kiddind.
He explained he could show the medals and insisted that it had been an unparalled feat.
Someone asked to what she had owed her success.
He told her it was careful feeding.
She said that she had thought as much.
Lord Emsworth said generously some pig owners were guided by other authorities and for all he knew got quite good results, but he had always pinned his faith on Wolff-Lehman.He explained that according to the Wolff-Lehman feeding standards a pig had to consume daily nourishment amounting to fifty-seven thousand calories, proteins four pounds five ounces, carbohydrates twenty-five pounds.
She asked whether it was excluesive of the last thing at night raid on the ice box.
He answered that barley meal, maize meal, linseed meal and separated buttermilk contained these calories. He told her he occasionally added on his own initiative a banana or a potato.
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