3 SO ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



at homo. In view of their worth as food for stock, the loss 

 is still greater. As long as these wastes continue, farming 

 must suffer. Rational economizing of such resources as 

 these will be among the best means for its recuperation. 



Practical Inferences from Feeding Experiments. 



In general, the result of the year's work confirms the prin- 

 ciple stated in previous summaries of the Annual Record, but 

 too little understood by farmers in this country, that econo- 

 my in feeding requires that the ration shall contain digestible 

 albuminoids and carbohydrates in the proportions adapted to 

 the specific wants of the animal and the purpose for which 

 it is fed. 



Comparing the results of late European experimenting 

 with the ordinary practice of feeding in this country, it is 

 manifest that we waste a great deal of food-material, and that 

 this waste is due, more than to anything else, to the wrong 

 proportions of ingredients in the fodder we use. From wrong 

 choice of crops for raising (as, for instance, growing too lit- 

 tle of nitrogenous crops, like clover, lucern, beans, and pease), 

 from inadequate manuring of those we do raise, and from 

 letting forage crops stand too long before cutting, our fod- 

 der materials lack nitrogen. We have concentrated foods, 

 such as linseed and cotton-seed cake and meal, meat-scrap, 

 and fish, which might supply this lack. But our farmers do 

 not understand their value, and they are shipped by the 

 hundreds of tons to Europe, where they are appreciated and 

 properly fed. This is only one of many illustrations of the 

 necessity of science for the best development of our agricult- 

 ure. A most encourainno; sio-n of the times is that farmers 



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have come to feel this need, are calling for scientific investi- 

 gation, and are applying its results in their practice. 



