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complish with all of our standard vegetable crops what 

 has already been accomplished in the development of 

 a dairy cow or a race horse. Thus not only do we see 

 the prospect of increasing crops for a given area, but 

 also of adapting the character of these crops more par- 

 ticularly for the purposes to which they are to be de- 

 voted. 



ECONOMY IN STOCK FEEDING. 



In the methods of using foods also great progress 

 has been made and greater still is to be expected. It is 

 possible, with the information which we now possess, 

 to put a pig of a given weight on the market at only 

 about two-thirds of the expense that formerly attended 

 this process. By a careful study of the character of 

 the food, it is possible to balance the rations in such 

 a way that each type of food exercises its maximum 

 nutritive properties. This has already been accom- 

 plished, to a large extent, in the farmyard and it is 

 possible to apply similar principles also in the dining- 

 room. Just as a chain is as weak as its weakest link, 

 so a food is as poor as its poorest typical element. In 

 the proper balancing of the rations, and in the appro- 

 priate mechanical preparation and in the cooking of 

 the food large economies can be effected and the progress 

 and welfare of the race promoted. 



According to our present system of grazing and feed- 

 ing, from two to three acres of land are required for the 

 sustenance of a dairy cow, while in the grazing or range 

 section of the West the area is much larger. Last sum- 

 mer, I had the pleasure of seeing a method of green 

 feeding practised by the Minnesota experiment sta- 

 tion, in which it was demonstrated that a cow or a sheep 

 could be kept on practically one-fourth of the area above 



