The Owosso times., 1910-03-04
EATING OF GRAIN
BY MANKIND
GlgA Priced Food Remedy Urged
by a Scientist.
DIFFERENT RATION FOR CATTLE.

Cr. RI. p. Armsby Believes In Cutting
| Animals Down to a Coarse Fodder
That Human Beings Cannot Assimi-
iate-Declare We Would Save on Big
Percentage of Food.
! Er. Henry Prentice Armsby of State
| College, Pa. who is great expert in
| animal nutrition. says we waste too
much good food on our animals and
that we should use grain ourselves
| and grow coarse fodder for our ami
mails. BY so doing we would save
largely on 45 per cent of our daily
food. and that ought to have lot OF
effect on high prices.
The Armsby program is simple
enough. 1t amounts to little more
than this: That the time has come for
the American people to begin eating
the food that they have been throwing
to the steers and the hogs and work
| out new ration for the animals. And
yet that idea when worked out means
that millions of bushels of grain that
now go into the nahons animal food
and dairy products will be directly
available for human consumption and
that we will have the beef and the
| butter and the cheese us well.
AS DR.. Armsby casually tells it:
You see. we are already confronsed
with food problem, and one Of the
| potent factors toward its solution Is
to ascertain more economic ration
for cattle We must learn how to OBJ
tain animal food and dairy products
| by feeding cattle on o ration that con-
] tains nothing that can be assimilated
| by human beings-that is, we must
| utilize our grain crops for mans con-
| sumption entirely and feed cattle on
| coarse folders not palatabe to human
beings. Animal food and dairy prod
| uctS make up A. per cent of the food
consumed by the people Of the United
| States. ny using cheaper ration for
animals we will get that 45 per cent
| IF our daily food cheaper and thereby
| relieve in Il measure the ordinary wage
Garner of his fight TO feed his family"
All very plausible. all simple enough
| has not been worked out in it's details
"A program that DR.. Armsby has.
| however, advanced further than per
haps any other scientist
Steer In a caIorimcter.
The experiment is centered around Il
| calorimeter and steer The steer is
| just steer. The calorimeter suggests
in appearance Il huge refrigerator. The
| box consists of an inner chamber of
sheet copper that can be tightly closed.
surrounded by two wooden walls. leav
| ing dead air, space Of about four
ner chamber. lighted-by plate glass
windows and supplied by constant
| current Of pure air. that the State Col
| lege steer. which may become historic,
| lives.
The temperature Of the chamber cab
be regulated to the hundredth part Of
degree. Every physical change with
in it can be weighed down to the hun
dredth part of an ounce. The amount
Of food energy given off in heat Is
measured. the amount Of food energy
used for mere physical upkecp is meas
| ured. and the rate of growth is meas
| ured. The experiments show exactly
what proportion Of the food energy of
each ration can be used by the animal
to produce meat or milk or work and
how much is simply used up in heat
ing the surrounding atmosphere.
A Saving Of Millions of Dollars.
The practical man, however. Is inter
ested in results, not mechanism What
do all these experiments amount to!
Where do they lead? They lead to an
era Of cheaper production. says DR..
Armsby. They amount to this: What
DR.. Armsby can do others can do after
him. and already the State College ex-
periments have laid the basis for an
economy in animal rations that If ap-
piled throughout the nation would
mean saving Of millions.
"As the density Of population and
the demand for breadstuffs increase"
says DR.. Armsby, "the stock feeder is
constrained to use the cheaper by
product feeds in place Of grain. From
the economic viewpoint. then. it is
highly important that that portion of
our national wealth represented by
these inedible products should be util-
ized to the best advantage, yielding a
more liberal supply of food to the con-
sumer
''Thus, you understand, the calori-
meter is showing us how to conserve
our grain to feed the men. women and
children Of the country by eliminating
1t tFentirely from the ration of cattle
and substituting in its stead present
fodder crops. new fodder crops sand
more grain byproducts."
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