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Article: What did farmers feed animals 100 years ago?
- Article from:
- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 1996
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Modern homesteaders often wonder how their forerunners fed live-stock. What did they do before soybean meal and all the other ingredients in most modern feeds were available? Did they grind grains? How did people provide a good, balanced diet to their animals 100 years ago?
The answer involves three different, but related, parts: feeding methods; knowledge of nutrition; and production.
Feeding methods were considerably different at the beginning of this century. and they varied widely from region to region (just as human eating habits did without the transportation and refrigeration we make use of today). There was much more reliance on what today are ...