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doing. I believe if farming is going to remain a profession 

 in the United States — and I believe it is going to be — in- 

 stead of being reduced to a peasant organization, we have 

 got to farm fully as much from the collar band up as from 

 the collar band down, and that we have got to adopt a 

 scientific type of thinking and a scientific vocabulary. You 

 users of automobiles know all about superheat, we use such 

 terms as carburetor, we don't need to shy away from amino 

 acids and other scientific terms relating to feeding. 



Speaking of carburetor, I am reminded of the story 

 of a man that had been driving an automobile for ten or 

 twelve years. It had gone along during that time, appar- 

 ently, without giving him very much trouble. One morn- 

 ing it spit and spluttered, he couldn't get it to fire right, 

 so he drove the car into a garage and said to the man in 

 charge, '1 think there is something the matter with that 

 thing-a-majig that mixes the air with the gas." And the 

 man took a look at it and said, ''Have you been driving a 

 car all these years and don't know what a carburetor is?" 

 (Laughter.) 



How can you get efficient mileage? How can a man 

 who doesn't know much about amino acids or scientific 

 feeding expect to get efficient mileage from his livestock? 

 It is more important that a man know something about how 

 to get efficient mileage from his livestock than that he 

 should know the scientific names of the parts of his car; 

 and most of these terms in stock feeding are not so hard to 

 spell and pronounce as are the terms used for your radio 

 or your automobile. 



Going on to amino acids, if you don't like that term 

 call them building stones and I will not argue with you. 

 The important thing is to realize that proteins are made up 

 of eighteen to twenty of these building stones from products 

 like — take certain of these acids ; about half of the protein 

 of corn is made up entirely of a single protein. They are 

 not zern. Corn fat entirely makes certain of these, if you 

 please, amino acids. 



You take a pig and give him all the corn fat he can 

 eat, and the pig cannot grow at all because he does not 



