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Show SCIENTIFIC FEEDING IS BEST Waste Saved by Carefully Studying Composition of Feeds and Their Digestibility. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) To supply food In the right proportion propor-tion to meet the various requirements of (he animal, without a waste of food nutrients, constitutes scientific feeding. feed-ing. It is by carefully studying tb composition of feeling stuffs, the proportion pro-portion in which they are digested by different animals and under different conditions, and the requirement of animals for the various food nutrients when at rest, at work, giving milk, producing wool, mutton, beef, pork, etc., that the principles of feeding have been worked out. In applying these principles In practice the cost and special adaptations of different feeding stuffs must, of course, be taken Into account. |