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Net Energy of Completely Balanced Nutriment as a Measure of Nutritive Value of Rations and of Nutritive Requirement of Animals

Pennsylvania State College

Abstract

The allegation that "order is Heaven's first law" expresses the insistence of the human mind upon system, for convenience sake, even where system is not—and folly it would be unnecessarily to oppose this law, which is for most men higher than reason.

Thus, from a very early date in the history of the science of nutrition, students of this subject have sought, and many have adopted and used single measures to express the entire nutritive value of foods, and the total nutritive requirement of animals.

Perhaps the limit of simplicity of conception in this relation was expressed by the old-school army quartermaster who, during the recent war, resented the idea of scientific oversight of rationing, and averred that all that was necessary by way of food control was "to give them a bellyful"—a significant measure which all men understand alike.