1 



CONTENTS 



PART I 



THE PRINCIPLES OF FEEDING 

 CHAPTER I 



PAGES 



Introduction: Man's Relation to Animal Life 16 



The conditions and problems involved in feeding animals . . 3 



CHAPTER n 



The Relations of Plant and Animal Life 7-10 



CHAPTER III 



The Chemical Elements of Nutrition 11-24 



The elements and their sources: Carbon, Oxygen, Hy- 

 drogen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Phosphorus, Chlorine, 



Potassium, Sodium, Calcium, Iron 12 



Proportions of elements in plants and animals 21 



In plants 21 



In animals 22 



CHAPTER IV 



The Compounds of Animal Nutrition 25-50 



Classes of matter 26 



(ix) 



