178 AN AGRICULTURAL WAR PROBLEM 



which soon rose to prices at which their use pro- 

 hibited all chance of profitable stock-keeping. This 

 was the state of things when in February, 1915, 

 Lord Selborne suggested that the staff of the School 

 of Agriculture should endeavour to show the 

 farmers how to buy and use the newer and cheaper 

 feeding stuffs to the best advantage. The Presi- 

 dent no doubt addressed his suggestion to Cam- 

 bridge because his Board had established, in con- 

 nection with the School of Agriculture, by means 

 of a grant from the Development Fund, an Insti- 

 tute for Research in Animal Nutrition. The staff 

 of the Institute were requested to undertake the 

 work, and in doing so they have received the 

 hearty cooperation of their colleagues on the staff 

 of the School of Agriculture. 



The President offered to supply at the end of 

 each month a list of quotations of the prices of all 

 the feeding stuffs on the great wholesale markets 

 of London, Liverpool, Hull and Bristol, and sug- 

 gested that a report should be prepared showing 

 in some simple manner the relative cost of the 

 nutrients in all these feeding stuffs so as to guide 

 the farmers in buying. It was also suggested that 

 the report should include rations in which the new 

 feeding stuffs were included in order to show the 

 farmers how to use them. The first report was 

 published by the Board of Agriculture in their 

 Journal for March, 1915. Reports on similar lines 

 have appeared in each succeeding monthly issue 



