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1 Landmark and Historic Contributions of Animal Nutrition
Pages 7-12

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... In 1916, a year before the United States entered World War I, President Woodrow Wilson asked the Academy to broaden its services, assist in military preparedness, and develop an organization of full-time employees to aid NAS scientists in preparing their reports for the government in a timely fashion. Thus, the NRC was established as the working arm of the National Academies.
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From page 8...
... Armsby, Director of the Institute of Nutrition, Pennsylvania State College. The subcommittee produced a seven-page document entitled Plan for Cooperative Experiments on Protein Requirements for Growth in Cattle (National Research Council, 1917)
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... population was assured that the problem of restricted animal feed supplies was by no means insurmountable. DEVELOPING NUTRIENT REQUIREMENTS In the middle to latter part of the 1940s, CAN published recommended nutrient allowances for diets of swine, poultry, beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, and horses.
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From page 10...
... Minimum requirements for these nutrients (except TDN) plus chloride, iron, copper, manganese, iodine, selenium, vitamin E, vitamin K, biotin, folacin, vitamin By, ten essential amino acids, linoleic acid, digestible energy, and metabolizable energy are included in the 10th edition (National Research Council, 1998~.
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... A former NRC staff officer, Selma Baron, may have said it best "The changes that have occurred since the inception of reports on the nutrient requirements of domestic animals reflect how the lives of all Americans have been altered during the past 70 years. From the rudimentary pencil and paper calculations of essential nutrients to the use of computers to generate requirements at various stages of the life cycle, the data developed by species subcommittees of the Committee on Animal Nutrition have provided essential information to those who raise animals for food, as companion animals, and for use in research.
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From page 12...
... Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences. National Research Council.
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