Excerpt from Feeding Farm Animals

Several valuable books have been written on the subject of feeding live stock, and those interested have reason to be grateful to the men who wrote them. But the criticism has been made, that some of these are too scientific in their treatment of the subject to meet the needs of the practical feeder, that the discussions in some are so general and diffuse and so lacking in sequence, that the labor involved in securing specific information from them is too great, and that others more specific in their methods of treatment, are helpful chiefly to those only who live in areas where certain leading foodstuffs are abundantly grown. The need, therefore, for something additional on the subject will be at once conceded by those who are familiar with its needs.

Those who have thought carefully upon the subject of feeding farm animals will subscribe to the statement, that it is one of the most comprehensive and difficult questions to discuss that pertain to the broad field of agriculture. So comprehensive is it that in the judgment of the author, no single treatise can cover a field so broad with sufficient fulness. An attempt, therefore, will not be made to produce such a book, as it must result in more or less of failure.

To cover the whole subject the author has planned, if spared, to write five books, the present being the first of the series.

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