The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-03-24


Animals Down to Coarse Fodder
That Human Beings Cannot Assinni.
Is.e-DeeIsre We Would Save on Big
Percentage Of Food.
Or. 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
aud 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 II 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
10 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 20 into the nations animal food
and dairy products viii be directly
available for human consumption and
that we will have the beef and the
butter aud the cheese as we'll
As Or. Armsby casually tells IT:
you see, we are already confronted
with food problem. and one OF the
potent factors toward its solution is
10 ascertain more economic ration
for cattle. We must learn how to OBJ
tain animal food and dairy products
by feeding cattle on a ration that con-
tains nothing that can be assimilated
by human belngs-thnt IL. we must
utilize our grain crops for mans con-
sumption entirely and feed cattle ON
coarse folders not palatable TO human
beings. Animal food and dairy prod
ucts make up 40 per cent OF the food
consumed by the people of the United
States. BY using n cheaper ration for
animals we will get that 40 per cent
OF our daily food cheaper and thereby
relieve In measure the ordinary wage
Garner OF his fight to feed his family"
All very plausible. all simple enough |
to hear II told. but program that |
has not been worked out in its details |
"a program that DR.. Armsby has. |
however advanced further than per-
haps any other scientist.
Steer In a Calorineter.
The experiment Is conferred around n /
and q steer. The steer is 1
just steer The calorlmeter suggests
In appearance huge refrigerator The
box consists OF an inner chamber OF
sheet copper that can be tightly closed,
by two wooden walls. leav-
ng dead mir space OF about four
inches between. IL is In the closed in
Ter chamber. lighted by plate glass
and supplied by constant
current OF pure air. that the State Col
eye steer, which may become historic.
ives.
The temperature Of the chamber can
70 regulated TO the hundredth part of
degree, Every physical change with
n 1t can be weighed down to the hun
4 food energy given off in heat is
the amount OF food energy
sed for mere physical upkeep is meas
red, and the rate OF growth is meas
red, The experiments show exactly
rhat proportion OF the food energy of
ach ration can be used by the animal
D produce meat or milk or work and
ow much Is simply used up In heat
lg the surrounding atmosphere.
A Saving Of Millions Of Dollars.
hAx tssl Inf I '
stcd in results. not mechanism. What /
o all these experiments amount tor I
Where do they lead? They lead to an &
ra of cheaper production, says DR. I
rmsby. They amount TO this What |
'r Armsby can do others can do after O
i'm. and already the State College ex-
erlments have laid the basis for an I
in animal ratlons that IL APP |
lied throughout the nation would I
lean saving OF millions. d
'As the density of population and G
ie demand for breadstufrs Increase
tys Or. Armsby, the stock feeder is |
TO use the cheaper by
roduct feeds I'm place OF grain, From
re economic viewpoint. then. 1t is
lghly important that that portion OF {
ar national wealth represented by
lese inedible products should be util-
ed TO the best advantage, yielding a c
ore liberal supply Of food to the con h
inner. /,
Thus. you understand. the calori- b
eter is showing US how 10 conserve |,
ir grain TO feed the men. women and b
iildren Of the country by eliminating II
entirely from the ration Of cattle c
I'd substituting In its stead present l
oder crops. new fodder crops and n
ore graia byproduets."