NEW FEEDING FOR DRY STOCK 175 



An alternative continuous-cropping ration not cost- 

 ing more than half the preceding one, and necessitating 

 no trough food, would be : — 



2 St. vetch and cereal silage 1 containing i-g digestible 

 I St. oat straw . . . V protein with 1 1*07 starch 

 4J St. kale . . . .J value. 



Space does not permit of our giving further 

 instances of the application of the comparative 

 principle of blending continuous-cropping rations. 

 With the examples already supplied, however, and 

 with the help of the table, no difficulty will be experi- 

 enced in compounding other rations for any other 

 class of stock. 



AGRICULTURAL AND NATIONAL ECONOMY 



One feature deserving special attention in connection 

 with the continuous-cropping rations is that unlike 

 ordinary rations very few — in several instances none at 

 all — foreign feeding stuffs are used. This is of import- 

 ance not only from an agricultural, but from a financial 

 and a national standpoint. The economic war will 

 really commence in these countries when peace is 

 declared, and the generation whose chief concern will 

 be the patching up of the Nation's wounds, will give 

 the matter of the importation of foreign food and the 

 exportation of British capital far more attention than 

 it has received in the past. At present we annually 

 import £300,000,000 worth of foreign food for the 

 feeding of ourselves and our flocks and herds, a sum 

 of money which might well be kept in the country did 

 a more productive system of agriculture prevail. 



THE PREPARATION OF FOOD 



Just as is the case with ordinary foods, there is 

 room for the exercise of considerable ingenuity in the 

 ^.ctual preparation of continuous cropping rations. 



