352 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



furnisli tlie proper basis for American feedinji' standards. The experi- 

 ments should be made in different parts of the country and continued 

 Ihrongh a number of years. They sliouhl be planned on a system 

 which will make the results properly comparable, and the records 

 should be accurately kept. Summaries of data obtained in this v^ay, 

 and of the available data which we have now, would be fairly entitled 

 to be called feeding- standards. These standards would have a real 

 value because they would be founded on scientific work and deduc- 

 tions. The closeness with which they would be followed by farmers in 

 different parts of the couutry would, of course, depend on a number 

 of variable conditions, as must be the case with any standard. With 

 the further accumulation of feeding experiments, the sttmdards would 

 l)robably have to be somewhat modified and perfected. 



Wolff has at least given us something to work u])on. We should 

 ju'ofit by his mistakes, but we should not abandon the attempt to 

 perfect the science of feeding. 



