A STUDY OF FEEDING STANDARDS FOR MILK PRODUCTION
ELMER SETH SAVAGE
A STUDY OF FEEDING STANDARDS FOR MILK PRODUCTION – What may be called the science of animal nutrition began with six experiments conducted by two German scientists, Henneberg and Stohlman, the results of which were published about 1860. Since that time man^/ scientists, notably in Germany and also in America since the founding of the American experiment stations, have interested themselves in trying to calculate the definite food requirements of certain groups of animals used for such purposes as labor, meat, wool, and milk production. These food requirement’s have been tabulated and designated ” feeding standards.”
Perhaps these standards have been of greater interest to teachers and investigators than to practical stock-feeders. To the practical feeder, feeding is an art; to the investigator, feeding is an exact science. Yet the teachings of science cannot be disregarded by the practical man, and he should have an adequate knowledge of the physiological make-up of his animals, of the different…