PREFACE 



SOME excellent books have been written on k the subject 

 of Foods and Feeding, but, generally speaking, the 

 language employed is rather too technical to be 

 readily understood by farmers in general, or even 

 students at Farm Institutes ; hence the writer has 

 felt, for some time, that an attempt should be made 

 to write in simpler language a small book on the 

 various problems which either directly or indirectly 

 affect the Stockfeeder. In fact, considerable pains 

 have been taken to present the information in a 

 way that will be really helpful to the feeder of stock 

 Another feature of the book is that the feeding trials 

 referred to are almost entirely British. Matters of 

 purely scientific interest have, as a rule, been omitted, 

 and a new " approximate method " of building up 

 rations, devised by the writer, has been introduced, 

 which should be a great help to feeders. 



Under the Fertiliser and Feeding Stuffs Act, it is 

 necessary for the seller of artificially compounded foods 

 to give on the invoice the minimum percentage of 

 albuminoids and oil which the food contains ; but after 

 very careful study, the writer finds that it would be 

 an enormous advantage to the farmer when purchasing 

 food, as well as when compounding rations, if the 

 fibre content of the purchased food was also stated 



