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Saturday, May 19, 2012

How to feed a pig, a cow, a sheep or a horse (1906)

Feeds and Feeding: A Hand-Book for the Student and Stockman, by W. A. Henry (HC, $5, which is 1/3 the internet price)

Henry was the Dean of the College of Agriculture, and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Wisconsin. From his preface you get the idea that books about livestock feeding might be new. The stockmen gathered knowledge from their experiences. The scientists who wrote books gathered information from their experiments. But did the stockmen and the scientists ever talk to each other? 

Dean Henry hopes to change that. Interestingly, Henry self-published this book 1n 1898, all 657 pages of it. He must have gotten back his investment, as the book was still being published in 1928. Look for it on the new non-fiction table.  (L-biol.)