APPENDIX II 



COMPUTING RATIONS FOB FARM ANIMALS 



Prepared by JOHN L. STONE, Assistant Professor of Agronomy, 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



FOR more than a third of a century, the subject of feeding to 

 farm animals a "balanced ration," or one that conforms quite 

 closely to a "standard" that has been fixed by carefully conducted 

 experiments with the kind of animal for which it is recommended, 

 has been before American stock feeders. The general utility of 

 feeding standards is almost universally admitted by those who 

 have given the matter study, and the number of feeders who are 

 endeavoring to conform their practices to the standards is con- 

 tinually increasing. 



The tables of feeding stuffs and the methods of using them 

 have been much simplified of late years, but judging by the large 

 number of requests from farmers, received by the agricultural 

 papers and the Experiment Stations, for formulas of balanced 

 rations, adapted to the needs of the inquirers, the subject is still too 

 complicated, or the labor involved too great, to be readily accom- 

 plished by the ordinary farmer. It is with a " r iew of further 

 simplifying the computation of rations and bringing it within 

 the range of every feeder that the accompanying tables have been 

 prepared. The effort has been to carry the computations as near 

 to completion as possible, so that the user will simply need to 

 take from the table the figures corresponding to the kinds and 

 amounts of the feeds used in the proposed ration and add them 

 together, to be able to compare it with the standard. The only 

 advantage claimed for this publication is that, by the arrangement 

 of the tables and by the computations made, the labor of formu- 

 lating rations is very materially reduced, and it is hoped that 

 many who have not heretofore attempted this work for themselves 

 will be encouraged to do so. 



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