The Element of Uncertainty in the Interpretation of Feeding Experiments (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Element of Uncertainty in the Interpretation of Feeding Experiments<br/><br/>A feeding experiment involves not only a record and interpre tation of the feed consumption and the gains of each lot, but also a statement of the cost of the experimental animals and of the feeds consumed as compared with a statement of the price real ized on the animals of each lot when sold. The question of the relative emphasis to be placed on these two subdivisions of the sub ject matter of a feeding experiment is of importance. In view of the fact that the feed consumption and the resulting gains of a given lot of animals on a given ration determine the final condi tion of the animals and afford the basis for the economic considera tions involved in a feeding experiment, and in view of the fact that conditions as to market price of feeding and fat cattle and cost of feeds have never been identical during any two consecutive years and seldom more than similar at irregular intervals,c it is obvious that the most valuable data of a feeding experiment are the data concerning the feed consumption and the rapidity of gain of the class of farm animals from which the experimental ani mals were drawn. B. E. Carmichael takes substantially the same position in the following quotation.

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