. The feeding of animals. Com Some writers estimate the needed area of soiling-crops on the basis of one-quarter to one-half a squarerod a day for each full-grown animal, the smaller unitapplying to corn and the larger to oats and peas, andsimilar crops. All this must be a matter of judgmentbased upon the circumstances CHAPTER XVITHE VALUATION OF FEEDING-STUFFS It seems to be very generally supposed that it ispossible to state fixed relative money values for feed-ing-stuffs, and that by comparing these with marketprices the relation of value to cost may be a state o
. The feeding of animals. Com Some writers estimate the needed area of soiling-crops on the basis of one-quarter to one-half a squarerod a day for each full-grown animal, the smaller unitapplying to corn and the larger to oats and peas, andsimilar crops. All this must be a matter of judgmentbased upon the circumstances CHAPTER XVITHE VALUATION OF FEEDING-STUFFS It seems to be very generally supposed that it ispossible to state fixed relative money values for feed-ing-stuffs, and that by comparing these with marketprices the relation of value to cost may be a state of knowledge is certainly much to be de-sired, for it would be of great practical use to various reasons, however, it is not yet attained,and there is little present prospect that it will be. Theestablishment of such relative values for cattle foods,as a whole and for general use, is a much more complexmatter than many suppose it to be, for it touches on oneside some of the most profound problems of physiolog-ical chemistry, concerning which we have only partialknowledge. 377. Basis of assigning values to feeding-stuffs.—The problem of assigning values to the classes of nutrientsin feeding-stuffs may be approached from two directions,viz., from the commercial side and from the physiolog-ical side. In the firs
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