It is now accepted as a fundamental doctrine in animal nutrition that the prime function of food is to supply energy for the operation of the human or animal body and that all its other diverse uses are essentially tributary to this main purpose. The growing recognition of this fact in its relations to the nutrition of farm animals has given rise during the past twenty-five years to extensive investigations, especially by Zuntz and his associates, by Kellner and Köhler and by the writers, in which the attempt has been made to determine experimentally how much energy the various feeding stuffs can actually contribute toward the upkeep of the animal body.
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