CROPS IN TEN DAYS.
FATTENING OF CATTLE. GERMAN FODDER PROCESS. (United Press Association —Copyright). LONDON, August 3^ The representative of the Australian Press Association saw at the station of the National Institute of Dairy Research at Shinfield, near Reading, a demonstration of a new pirocess of the intensive cultivation of fodder for fattening cattle. The process was invented by Dr. Spangenberg, a German, and an English company has been formed to develop it commercially. It enables numerous crops, particularly maize and oats, to grow to the same extent in ten days as normally would occupy two or three months. The process consists of sowing the seeds in airtight cabinets from which light is excluded, the seeds being treated with considerable quantities of water containing a small proportion of a certain chemical. The method produces such intense growth that the 'crop can be removed from the cabinets after ten days, when, from 13 to 16 inchos high, and used immediately for fattening animals. ' It is claimed that 36 crops can be grown annually. It is particularly suitable for fattening cattle owing to the vitamin content being greater than that of natural crops.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 251, 4 August 1933, Page 5
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191CROPS IN TEN DAYS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 251, 4 August 1933, Page 5
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