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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18015, 6 March 1924, Page 15

Tho old joke about tho Yankee farmer wbo mixed sawdust with corn meal and i'ed it to a blind horse, claiming tliat as the horse could not see what be vas eating lie got full benefit from the s'aiv dust tho ■'Rural New Yorker' affirms, no longer a joke. Sawdust, it says, is being fed to dairy cattle with reasonable results. Of course, it is not pure sawdust. It is treated chemically by a process called hydrolising. This converts a portion of the wood fibre into sugar, and changes the rest into a more or less digestible substance."The conclusion is that this sawdust may be substitnte*! for corn and barley without affecting tho normal milk flow"— that is, when used as a- mixture with grain,