Excerpt from The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1920, Vol. 44
Practical experience has shown that corn-meal and skimmed milk form a combination which promotes the rapid growth of young animals as well as poultry. Laboratory experience has lately shown that the good results obtained with this mixture are due to the fact that the nutritive deficiences of the corn-meal are made good by the constituents of the milk. As the high cost of these food products makes it important to use them in the most efficient proportions, we undertook the experiments described in this paper. These were made with the following considerations in mind.
The food intake of animals is chiefly determined by their calorific requirements. In agricultural practice com or corn-meal usually furnishes the major part of the calories of the ration. If skimmed milk is fed separately and before the corn-meal the animal may readily eat more than enough to supplement properly the com, if fed milk after the com it may eat too little. The proper way to feed these products, therefore, would be to mix them so that both may be eaten at the same time. Such a method would be particularly advantageous for those who have an irregular supply of skimmed milk because in this way all the latter would be used under conditions of maximum efficiency.
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