 | Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station - Agriculture - 1903 - 1180 pages
...resting animal will neither gain nor lose weight. 3. A balanced ration furnishes the several nutrients: Protein, carbohydrates and fat, in such proportion and amount as will properly and without excess nourish a given animal for twenty-four hours. A balanced, fattening ration will differ in character... | |
 | William Arnon Henry - Animal nutrition - 1910 - 632 pages
...meal the very narrow ratio of 1 : 1.6, the carbohydrates being less than twice the crude protein. 132. Concerning rations. — On the farm a ration is the...hours. A maintenance ration is one that furnishes a sufficiency of each and all of the several nutrients but no more than is required to maintain a given... | |
 | Vermont. Commissioner of Agriculture - 1914 - 570 pages
...BEST BALANCED RATION FOR A DAIRY COW. AA BORLAND, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OP VERMONT. "A balanced ration is the feed or combination of feeds...without excess of any nutrient, nourish a given animal twenty-four hours." A balanced ration is not identical with an unlimited supply of food, since the... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1917 - 600 pages
...value, on the other, if one is to secure the best results from the food supplied to the dairy cows. "A balanced ration is the feed or combination of feeds...properly and without excess of any nutrient nourish any given animal for 24 hours." A balanced ration is not identical with an unlimited supply of food,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1917 - 600 pages
...value, on the other, if one is to secure the best results from the food supplied to the dairy cows. "A balanced ration is the feed or combination of feeds...— in such proportion and amount as will properly aud without excess of any nutrient nourish any given animal for 24 hours." A balanced ration is not... | |
 | William Arnon Henry, Frank Barron Morrison - Animal feeding - 1922 - 792 pages
...nutrients — crude protein, carbohydrates, and fat — in such proportion and amount as will properly nourish a given animal for 24 hours. A maintenance...is one that furnishes enough, but no more, of each of the several nutrients than is required to support an animal which is doing no work and yielding... | |
 | Southern logging superintendents association - 1917 - 104 pages
...popular scientist on feeds and feeding, gives the following definition for the term "a balanced ration:" A balanced ration is the feed or combination of feeds...proportion and amount as will properly and without excess nourish a given animal for 24 hours. A maintenance ration is one that furnishes enough, but no more,... | |
 | Alberta. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1914 - 1190 pages
...using Prof. Henry's definition, "is a feed or combination of feeds furnishing the several nutrients in such proportion and amount as will properly and...excess of any nutrient nourish a given animal for twenty-four hours." The ratio which exists in any given feeding stuff between the digestible protein... | |
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A balanced ration is the feed or combination of feeds furnishing the several nutrients — crude protein, carbohydrates, and fat — in such proportion and amount as will properly and without excess of any nutrient nourish a given animal for 24 hours. 