MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF 

 ANIMAL NUTRITION 



(American Society o£ Animal Production) 



PROCEEDINGS REPORTED BY 



LEWIS W. FETZER 



The annual meeting of the American Society o£ Animal Nutri- 

 tion was held at Chicago, 111., on November 30, 191 2. The ad- 

 dress of the President, H. J. Waters, of the Kansas State Agricul- 

 tural College, at Manhattan, Kansas, dealt with a report on a 

 " Study of the effects of different proteins and ash constituents on 

 the growth of pigs." 



Professor E. W. Morse, of the Office of Experiment Stations, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, read a paper entitled " Sugges- 

 tions concerning the planning and reporting of feeding trials," in 

 which he pointed out some needed improvements in planning feed- 

 ing tests so that the results obtained could be interpreted by modern 

 biometrical and Statistical methods, and that the work as a whole 

 could be so systematized and coördinated that the results of each 

 investigation could be compared with those obtained by others. At 

 present the work in this direction is so uncorrelated that a compila- 

 tion of results on any uniform basis is out of the question. 



The Standing committee on methods of reporting results of 

 feeding experiments made a special report, which contained recom- 

 mendations urging uniform methods of reporting data obtained in 

 such experiments. The recommendations include a summary of the 

 opinions expressed by a large nuniber of investigators in response 

 to questions previously propounded to members of the Society. The 

 recommendations were adopted. 



It was voted to enlarge the scope of the work of this society, to 

 include all animal husbandry interests — problems connected with 

 the breeding, judging and management of live stock. This is to be 

 in addition to investigations in regard to nutritive value of feeds 



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