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of the Journal under the title of "Notes on Feed- 

 ing Stuffs." As a result of the appearance of the 

 " Notes" members of the staff have been asked to 

 confer with farmers' clubs in order to give further 

 information about the newer kinds of feeding stuffs. 

 A large amount of correspondence on the subject 

 has been received and answered. The newer feed- 

 ing stuffs which were recommended as suitable for 

 British conditions have been used largely and suc- 

 cessfully, and their use has certainly helped farmers 

 to produce meat and milk under very difficult con- 

 ditions. 



The story of the problem has now been told, 

 but the real interest lies not in the story itself but 

 in the method of solution. As presented by the 

 President the problem consisted of two separate 

 parts : how to buy feeding stuffs to the best ad- 

 vantage, and how to use them when bought. Feed- 

 ing stuffs are offered on the markets at prices per 

 ton, per quarter., or per bushel. The Board were 

 good enough to send the quotations to Cambridge 

 worked out uniformly at prices per ton. But price 

 per ton is not a reliable criterion of feeding value, 

 for different feeding stuffs contain different pro- 

 portions of nutrients. The first step was to com- 

 pile a table showing the percentage of the various 

 nutrients in all the feeding stuffs on the markets. 

 This was not quite a simple matter, because most 

 of the tables of analyses given in the books dealing 

 with foods were made from German fodders. How- 



