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THE article by Mr. E. T. Halnan in NATURE of September 20 threw an interesting light on the problem of achieving the maximum efficiency in livestock farming from the point of view of war–time food production. He made out a good case for giving prior right to the hen in the distribution of available feeding–stuffs, over meat–producing animals. The milk–cow easily takes first place as an efficient food converter, and its performance is still more amazing when one considers that, besides utilizing concentrated feeding–stuffs such as hens and pigs need, it also utilizes cheap, home–produced foods such as grass, hay, straw, etc.
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JONES, E. Poultry as Food Converters. Nature 148, 471 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148471b0
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