PREFACE 



The fundamental principles of feeding animajs 

 are applicable to all parts of the country and to all 

 parts of the world. For many years investigators 

 have been at work on problems of nutrition and on 

 interpreting the data obtained. As a result the 

 student farmer has now at hand useful suggestions 

 that will assist in handling the feeding problems 

 of the farm to the best advantage. The man who 

 feeds in a scientific manner is able not only to use 

 his feeding stuffs more economically but he can 

 obtain animal products more cheaply than can his 

 neighbor who ignores the helps that science offers 

 him. To these facts the author himself can testify. 

 He not only has been a teacher of animal nutrition 

 for many years, but has had a life-time experience 

 also with the practical problems of feeding in feed- 

 lots and stables. 



The volume herewith presented discusses the first 

 principles of scientific feeding and aims to interpret 

 them so as to be equally useful to student, stockman 

 and farmer. In this presentation, the needs of the 

 teacher of animal feeding have also been kept in 

 mind at every step, the object being to set forth the 

 several phases in pedagogical as well as utilitarian 

 form. 



.. W. Burkett. 



New York, July, 1912. 



