Excerpt from The Principles of Feeding Farm Animals This volume is an outgrowth from a class manual written several years ago by the author for the use of elementary students at the University of Illinois in a general course in stock-feeding. Inasmuch as there has been some little demand for the class manual from outside sources, the author has rewritten the original manuscript and added a number of valuable illustrations and tables. An effort has been made to present the scientific facts underlying the art of feeding animals in such a manner that the book will not only be suitable for use as a text for college courses in general feeding, but will also be valuable to the farmer who has not had a technical education in agriculture. Thus it has been deemed wise to omit many minor details and a large part of the mass of experimental data from which the general conclusions are deduced. In the first six chapters the author has discussed the scientific aspects of the subject and has attempted to present them in a simple, concise manner so that they may be easily understood, not only by the student but also by the feeder who desires to familiarize himself with the scientific principles underlying the art of stock-feeding. A large number of drawings and photographs illustrating points in the discussion should be of great value in this connection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.