. Farm crops; a practical treatise on the growing of American field crops: containing brief and popular advice on the seeding, cultivating, handling and marketing of farm crops, and on the management of lands for the largest returns. sgrown on the farm and used for feeding purposesare low in protein but correspondingly high inother nutrients. The farmer can raise all the car-bohydrates and fat needed for either the dairy orthe block, but unfortunately there are no feedingstuffs made up wholly of protein. If there were,the balancing of rations in reference to cost wouldbe a very simple process
. Farm crops; a practical treatise on the growing of American field crops: containing brief and popular advice on the seeding, cultivating, handling and marketing of farm crops, and on the management of lands for the largest returns. sgrown on the farm and used for feeding purposesare low in protein but correspondingly high inother nutrients. The farmer can raise all the car-bohydrates and fat needed for either the dairy orthe block, but unfortunately there are no feedingstuffs made up wholly of protein. If there were,the balancing of rations in reference to cost wouldbe a very simple process indeed. PROTEIN NOT SOLELY PURCHASED Though protein is the constituent most neededon most farms, when purchased, other nutrientsmust be taken along with the protein. Carbo-hydrates and fat are present in all feeding stuffsand they have a commercial value. Consequentlywhen we buy protein we get also carbohydratesand fat. It should not be understood that theselatter constituents are a trouble or a nuisance; theyhave a value. But you readily see it is unfortunateto purchase them when their like can be secured athome. It suggests the same idea that a necktiemust always be purchased with a collar. One may WHAT CROPS FOR FEEDING 47. never wear a necktie, or he may have all he needs at home, yet every time he buys a collar he is obliged to pay for a necktie as well. If a necktie is not needed, but only a collar, it is likely the rule would be to get the collar having the least necktie about it and the value of the purchase would be placed wholly upon the collar and nothing on the necktie. If a farmer raises on his farm all the carbohydrates and fat he needs, and which have a low commercial value, he cannot afiford to buy more of the same constituents at a price many times higher than he can raise the same himself. Yet the feeder is obliged to do this very thing when he purchases protein. It cannot be helped and it is no ones fault. There is a point of practical bearing, however, in th
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