Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-07-16
MANklNO'S GREAT NEED
IS MORE ANIMAL FOOD,
Live Stock Raising and Its as-
IatIon to Cereal Byproducts.
sy GEORGE W. WEBER In wsssvs
Weekly.

main alive requires. hrst OF all. sub.
xistcnce Clothing comes next.
then shelter. then fuel Science has
gone far aud wide In its study Of hu.
man foodstuifs- % determine their rel
ativs values In dic,etics. Hut, for the
most part. this article has nothing 10
do with their conclusions. valuable m
they are. More broadly. II win con.
slider merely the RELATIVELY of tho two
great foodstuff elements, which are;
Products of tho soii.-graln. vegets.
bles. fruits,
Animal foods,uffs- -meats. iish. eggs.
butter,
Live stock -domestlc animals propa-
gated for food--llve upon substantially
tho same vegetable products which hu.
man beings consume aud require. In.
asmuch M man aud animals eat tho
samc sort Of vegetable products there
II an actual competition between them
for such vegetable foodstufYs AZ may
be derived from the soil. Man, being
the stronger. dominates and controls
the production and supply Of vcgeta-
bio food precincts. From each year's
crop. arst Of all. he takes what he re-
Quircs. feeds himself. and permits what
IL left 10 70 10 feed live stock. Thus.
Il appears. that our live stock--our
meat supply rcsourcc--is dependent In
largo part upon what man. hnvlng fed
himself. leaves OF the annual products
oe the soil or course there Ia other
vegetation which live stock can be
fed upon--yegctable matter which man
does not require and cannot eat.
Live stock can be maintained and. 10
soho extent prepared for market by
grazing.
Live stock can be raised and made
marketable by feeding upon tho by.
products from cereal and other vsge-
table crops.
- MSls si Feeding esu6s.
When live stock II grased upon lands
which cannot probably b TILED and
madc to produce cereals or vegetables
such live stock II q clear proAt and an
addition 10 human food supplies. But
where good conditioned. tillnblc land 10
abandoned to grazing there Is likely to
be a definite loss OF vegetable food.
stuffs and their byproducts. In other
words. land IN proper condition can be
made to produce more foodstuff values
by cultivation than by use az pastur-
age. However. this does not mean that
soil areas should not have rest--or.
better still. liberalization such a. ID
brought about by use Of II for pastur-
Ing live stock.
II the byproducts--the fornge--aris.
Ing from cereal and vegetable crops
are not made use OF to feed live stock,
then tho stock will have to live of Of
what Ia left Of the cereals after human
requirements are fully supplied, Thus
; the live stock or meat supply, leaving
out OF consideration that which 10 pro
duced solely BY grazing on qptillable
lands, would represent each years
surplus cereal crop. And a year Of
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