Animal feeds on the Federation

A knowledge of the nutritive value of feeds is essential for correct and economical feeding of farm stock. In countries where the science of agriculture has been practised for a century or more a vast amount of data has accumulated and from this reliable values have been obtained for the animal feeds in use. In the tropics the study of animal nutrition is a relatively new subject and most of the information available about local feeding stuff's is based on chemical analysis. This is true in the Federation, although a few digestibility trials with animals have been carried out. It is well known that without digestibility data chemical analysis can only provide approximate values.

An Occasional Paper on animal feed nutrition in the then Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland.