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The Feeding of Farm Stock. [fee 



the Development Fund in aid of Farm Institutes, which has 

 been made by the Board of Education, will therefore be with- 

 drawn by them, and the Circular 778 on "Aid from the 

 Development Fund for the provision and maintenance of Farm 

 Institutes " issued by them on the 14th of July last is hereby 

 cancelled. A fresh application for an advance in aid of Farm 

 Institutes will in due course be put forward by the Board 

 of Agriculture. 



Frequent consultation and co-operation between the two 

 Boards and their respective officers will be still necessary under 

 the redistribution of functions, and the existing arrangements 

 will be simplified and strengthened. 



(Signed) Walter Runciman, 



President of the Board of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries, 

 (Signed) Joseph A. Pease, 



President of the Board of Education. 



19th January, 1912. 



THE FEEDING OF FARM STOCK. 

 Charles Crowther, M.A., Ph.D., 



Leeds University. 



The object of this and subsequent articles is to furnish 

 guidance in the feeding of the various classes of farm live- 

 stock, and more particularly in the compounding of rations. 

 It cannot be too clearly emphasised at the very outset that the 

 first essential for complete success in feeding is a good animal 

 — good in applying food to the purposes for which it is sup- 

 plied. No system of feeding will convert poor stock into 

 good stock. 



The science of animal nutrition is not yet sufficiently 

 developed to permit of the reduction of the construction of 

 rations to a set of precise rules, nor indeed is it likely that 

 such simplicity can ever be attained. It has been truly said 

 that it is the eye of the feeder that fattens his stock. Intelligent 

 observation of the effects of the ration upon the well-being of 

 the animal, and a practical acquaintance with the peculiarities 

 and general requirements of each class of stock, must long 

 remain the prime essentials for the attainment of efficiency 

 with economy in feeding. Moreover, the feeder must be 



