2 FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



importance of understanding them on the part of those who 

 engage in keeping domestic animals. 



In addition to these laws or principles is a long array 

 of considerations that have each a more or less important 

 bearing upon the successful feeding of animals. They 

 have not the rank or force of laws or principles, and yet 

 so nearly allied are some of them to the latter, that it is 

 not easy to determine the border line between them. 

 Each has a more or less important bearing on the suc- 

 cessful feeding of animals. That none of them have quite 

 the rank or force of laws is evidenced in the fact that 

 neglecting them will not be followed by consequences so 

 direful as those that would follow non-conforming to the 

 requirements of laws or principles, and yet the feeder 

 whose work is to be successful cannot afford to ignore 

 any one of them in the prosecution of his work. These 

 will be discussed in Chapters XVII. to XXI. 



