. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . stalk does not possess a nutritive value equal to theenergy expended in trying to digest it. To at-tempt to force cattle to clean up these inert stubsis to put upon them unnecessary and unprofitablework. The upper part can be masticated more cheaplyby these older cattle than it can be cut up by ma-chinery. Cutting or chaffing hay and straw is practicedmore largely in Europe than in America. The ex-pense of such work is so great in comparison with theoriginal value of the roughage and the added value ofthe fodder that the practice is unprofita
. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . stalk does not possess a nutritive value equal to theenergy expended in trying to digest it. To at-tempt to force cattle to clean up these inert stubsis to put upon them unnecessary and unprofitablework. The upper part can be masticated more cheaplyby these older cattle than it can be cut up by ma-chinery. Cutting or chaffing hay and straw is practicedmore largely in Europe than in America. The ex-pense of such work is so great in comparison with theoriginal value of the roughage and the added value ofthe fodder that the practice is unprofitable for Mid-dlewest and Western conditions. Farm animals are equipped for masticating mostfoods in the crude state, and, thus equipped, theyare able to do the necessary mechanical work at lesscost than it can be done by purchased power. Someseeds are too small and hard to be fed whole, butfodder plants, as a rule, are more profitably usedwhole, which will be true as long as labor is costlyand roughage is low in price. 190 PROFITABLE STOCK
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