6; 



To these a fifth might well be named which accrues to the 

 man owning the land upon which the legumes grew or is fed in 

 the added fertility to the soil. Timothy, millet and sorghum wear 

 land out, put a poor finish on cattle, and make relatively slow 

 and costly gains. 



THE PREPARATION OF FEED. 



This is one of the very oldest questions in connection with 

 the feeding of animals. The first thought in the mind of the 

 average man who seeks to apply better methods to stock feeding 

 is in reference to the manner in which the food shall be prepared. 

 To the novice it is in this line that there seems to be the greatest 



A CASE WHERE THE CATTLE AND THE HOGS BOTH PAID A PROFIT. 

 OUR SUMMER FEEDING EXPERIMENTS. 



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opportunity for reform. When the Experiment Stations were 

 established, this was the first problem in nutrition to be at- 

 tacked. Nevertheless the practice of the feeder is not essen- 

 tially different in this regard from what it was a quarter of a 

 century ago. Particularly is this true of the feeder of beef 

 cattle. While it has been found highly profitable to expend con- 

 siderable energy and money in preparing the foods for the highly 

 specialized dairy cow, the average beef animal seems to have time 

 enough and sufficient energy of not a very expensive sort to do 

 the work of dividing and preparing the feed which it was at 

 first sought to spare him, by cutting, chafing, grinding, soaking, 

 cooking, and so on. 



The question was put directly to the feeders interviewed : 



