NEW CATTLE FODDER
STRAW PULPING PROCESS ENGLISH EXPERIMENTS Britain’s farmers are obtaining excellent results .with the fodder now being produced by the new caustic soda straw-pulping process on over 250 farms in the United Kingdom. Experiments at the Midland Agricultural College with eight pairs of dairy Shorthorn steers weighing between 5 and showed that those fed with processed straw achieved over the 71 days of the trial an average Uveweight increase of 1.791 b a day, an advantage of .71b. per day, or of 64 per cent, over thosb receiving untreated straw.
Even more striking were the results from a test with 20 young dairy cattle, seven to 20 months old, at the National Institute for Research in Dairying. Each of the animals given soda processed straw with the ration increased 1.171 b a day, against ,471 h for each one fed with straw soaked in cold water only, a gain of no less than 148 per cent. Similar results have been obtained in other experimental centres, and trials confirm that pulping so improves the feeding value of cereal straw, chaff and cavings that the products can be used to replace part of the hay, corn or roots in rations for meat and milk production. The processing plant of concrete or brick can be erected by builders in Britain at a cost of about £3O. Running two batches a day it will produce J4oolb of straw pulp from 4001 b of straw, enough to supply 28 animals with 501 b per head daily, and it only takes an hour’s light work to put through each lot
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20677, 30 January 1942, Page 3
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266NEW CATTLE FODDER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20677, 30 January 1942, Page 3
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