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investigations have shown that the economical feeder 

 cannot afford to purchase them. 



EXERCISE. Go to a feed store and copy the guarantees of the feeds 

 the dealer has on hand. Note the weight of the packages. Compare 

 the guarantees with the standards given in Table i. Classify these 

 feeds as standard or inferior. Visit your drug stores and feed 

 dealers and make a list of the various condimental feeds sold for 

 hogs, cattle, poultry and horses. Ascertain the selling prices. Figure 

 the cost of these feeds per ton. Do your folks use any of these 

 feeds? Secure a few of these feeds and try to distinguish some of 

 their ingredients. Shelled corn is worth $30 a ton and cane molasses 

 can be purchased for $18 a ton. If you had considerable corn on hand, 

 would it be cheaper to sell your corn and purchase molasses for 

 feeding purposes? What is your reason for your decision? Which 

 is the more economical to feed : cotton-seed meal carrying 40 per 

 cent, protein at $25 a ton, or cotton-seed meal containing 36 per 

 cent, protein at $23 a ton? 



REFERENCES FOR COLLATERAL READING. 



FEEDS AND FEEDING : 



Farmers' Bulletins, Nos. : 

 32 Silos and silage. 

 36 Cotton seed and its products. 

 84-97-122-225-305 Feeding poultry. 

 170 Principles of horse feeding. 

 186 Rations for laying hens. 

 202 Home-grown protein for dairy cows. 

 222 Silage for cows. 

 249 Cereal breakfast foods. 

 251 Indoor vs. outdoor feeding of steers. 

 251 Cheap dairy rations. 

 305 Roots and cabbages for stock food. 

 346 Computation of rations by energy values. 

 Experiment Station Bulletins, Nos. : 



58 Missouri Feeding the dairy cow. 

 106 North Carolina Rational stock feeding. 

 114 Louisiana; 131 Indiana; 220 New Jersey; 120 Mas- 

 sachusetts Commercial feeds. 

 115 Louisiana Feeding. 

 182 Virginia Silo construction. 

 BOOKS : 



Feeds and Feeding Henry W. A. Henry, Madison, Wisconsin. 

 The Feeding of Animals Jordan The Macmillan Co., New 



York City. 

 Chemistry of Plant and Animal Life Snyder The Macmillan 



Co., New York City. 

 Human Foods Snyder The Macmillan Co., New York City. 



