AN AGRICULTURAL WAR 

 PROBLEM 



By T. B. WOOD, M.A. 



Drapers Professor of Agriculture, in the 

 University of Cambridge. 



The following pages attempt to describe how 

 the staff of the Cambridge School of Agriculture 

 have tried to solve a problem submitted to them 

 at the beginning of 1915 by the President of the 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. The problem, 

 like most matters claiming the attention of the 

 country at the present time, arose out of the war. 

 Farmers as a body have never taken a serious 

 interest in the scientific principles upon which the 

 practice of the feeding of animals is based. Per- 

 haps they have been justified, to some extent, in 

 this course, for two reasons: in the first place 

 most of the data on which the science of the nutri- 

 tion of farm animals rests have been drawn from 

 German or American sources, and the conclusions 

 based on them are not applicable with absolute 

 strictness to British conditions and British fodders. 

 In the second place the actual number of different 

 fodders generally used by farmers is so small that 



