The Use of Low Quality Roughage for Ruminants

The Malthusian doctrine put forward in the middle of the 18th century, forecast that the population of the world would, in a relatively short period of time, find it increasingly difficult to feed itself. I think it is obvious that, sooner or later, the world’s population must reach saturation point when the tragedy envisaged by Malthus will be with us. However, there are many ways of deferring the evil day, and one of these is to make better use of the low quality roughages which abound in such countries as the Americas, and Australia.