306 THE POTATO 



"Potatoes cannot be fed to young animals as 

 safely as to more mature ones, since if fed in too 

 large quantities they have a tendency to pre- 

 maturely fatten the animal. With mature animals 

 when the object is principally the addition of fat 

 to the body, potatoes may be fed to good advan- 

 tage. 



"When the crop of potatoes is large and prices 

 low, a method of storing and feeding potatoes to 

 advantage is desirable. 



"A method of preserving potatoes which at the 

 same time cooks them would seem worthy of trial, 

 but it would doubtless be wise to experiment on 

 a small scale first." 



John M. Scott, in Florida Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station "Press Bulletin 71," says: 



"In all feeding experiments it has been found 

 that rations containing a high percentage of carbo- 

 hydrates (fat and heat producing material) do not 

 give good returns in producing meat; but if suf- 

 ficient protein (muscle and bone producing ma- 

 terial) is added, so as to give the animal a balanced 

 ration (or one nearly balanced) the results are 

 generally satisfactory. It makes little difference 

 in what feeds the carbohydrates are furnished so 

 long as the material is digestible. Since sweet 

 potatoes are a crop easily grown, give good yields, 

 are well adapted to the soils and climate of Florida, 

 and contain a large percentage of carbohydrates, 

 some notice should be taken of them, and they 

 deserve to be studied in order to find out their 

 value as a feed for pork production. 



"It has been pretty clearly demonstrated that 

 sweet potatoes when fed alone are a poor feed for 



