Britain's supplies of feeding-stuffs

ABSTRACT IN view of the actual and prospective shortage of feeding-stuffs in Britain, attention may be directed to the comprehensive study of the situation made by Dr. Norman C. Wright,

director of the Hannah Dairy Research Institute, in the _Empire Journal of Experimental Agriculture_ for July 1940 (see also NATURE of August 24, p. 251). In this study, which gives detailed

trade statistics for the period 1934–8, the author stresses the great part played by our grasslands in providing food for livestock; grazing and hay together supply just under 60 per cent

of the protein and starch equivalents consumed. Together with the products of arable land, our home supplies constitute about three quarters of the total available. Unfortunately, however,

grass, including hay, is essentially a seasonal product, and the question of supplies in winter during war-time becomes very serious, especially in respect of pigs and poultry, which are

mainly fed on cereals and concentrates, and of which we import 70-75 per cent of our requirements. Owing to shortage of shipping and to currency restrictions, supplies of all imported

feeding-stuffs will be much reduced next winter, and it seems likely that the pre-War proportions of cereal and oil-seed imports will remain unaltered. Access through your institution Buy or

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