LIVE STOCK AND SUCCESSFUL FARMING II 



some instances, easily possible for the European farmer 

 to buy American grown products and to feed them to live 

 stock at a profit, while the American farmer who is dis- 

 tant from the place of production is unable to do so. The 

 New England dairyman or feeder could turn to excellent 

 account the cheap hay grown in the upper Mississippi 

 basin, but the cost of transportation makes prohibitory 

 the feeding of such food upon his farm. Notwithstand- 

 ing, the New England factory employe is able to stand 

 the cost of transporting the same hay virtually to the 

 same market in the form of butter or cheese. 



It is impossible to state with decision the saving in 

 transportation by turning bulky foods, and even concen- 

 trates, into the still more concentrated forms of meat, 

 milk and other products of the dairy. This will be in- 

 fluenced first by the relative reduction in weight ef- 

 fected, the relative advance in value of the finished prod- 

 uct in a given market compared with the value of the 

 materials used in making it, and relative freight charges 

 on these products. The influence last p-entioned will not 

 be discussed here since it is, to so great an extent, a vary- 

 ing factor. 



The saving in weight effected by feeding foods in the 

 form of animal products is proportionate to the bulkiness 

 or the opposite of the foods fed ; to the relative nutrition 

 in these in proportion to weight; to the relative propor- 

 tion of bulky foods and concentrates that are fed, and to 

 the degree of the concentration in the animal product 

 made from these foods. It is apparent, of course, that the 

 greater the bulk, the less the nutrition ; the larger the pro- 

 portion of bulky foods fed and the less concentrated the 

 forms into which the foods are changed, the less rela- 

 tively will be the saving effected in transportation. While 

 the amount of the saving effected on the basis of reduced 

 weight from transforming food for animals into animal 

 products cannot be given with precision, it may be stated 

 approximately. To make 2 pounds of meat per day from 



