Download or read book Twelfth Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State Agricultural Experiment Station at Amherst, Mass., 1894 (Classic Reprint) written by Mass Agricultural Experiment Station and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twelfth Annual Report of the Board of Control of the State Agricultural Experiment Station at Amherst, Mass., 1894 In order to feed the live stock of the farm to the best advantage, it is important that the farmer be familiar with the elementary principles of animal nutrition. N ow the body of the animal is made up, generally speak ing, of four distinct groups of substances, namely, (1) water, (2) flesh (lean meat), (3) fat, (4) ash. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.